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The United Nations could be the best venue for holding this summit, because this is not about making a favor to a certain country.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Every war ends as a result of the actions taken on the battlefield and at the negotiating table. the United Nations could be the best venue for holding this summit, because this is not about making a favor to a certain country.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is just one thing left to do: to fulfill them before it’s too late. Otherwise the Russian army will take matters into its own hands, with regard to the duration of the conflict, the ball is now in the court of Washington and its regime.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is a specified channel that has been agreed upon by [ Russian President Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov President Joe Biden ], and no matter what anyone says publicly, this channel will remain in effect.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There is a specified channel that has been agreed upon by the presidents, and no matter what anyone says publicly, this channel will remain in effect.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s obvious that they used the G20 for goals that weren’t envisaged when it was created.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You know, it was not us who abandoned all contacts, it was the United States. And we are not running after anybody suggesting meetings. If they don’t want to talk, it’s their choice.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We just explained to Ukraine many times that a situation had arisen which posed a direct threat to Russia, despite the fact that we talked about this over many years -- no one listened to our appeals and exhortations.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have asked for a written guarantee…that the current process triggered by the United States does not in any way damage our right to free and full trade, economic and investment cooperation and military-technical cooperation with the Islamic State.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I cannot comment [on] conjectures, and there’s a great deal of these now.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They behave like pillagers and marauders. And, you know, there is a lot of information about the future provocations that brood in Mariupol and other territories where the Ukrainians are now trying to use the civilians as a human shield, talk to the Indians, the Arabs, and the Africans that are trying to flee Ukraine now. They are not allowed.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is no positive reaction on the main issue in this document, the main issue is our clear position on the inadmissibility of further expansion of NATO to the East and the deployment of strike weapons that could threaten the territory of the Russian Federation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There is no positive reaction on the main issue in this document, the main issue is our clear position on the inadmissibility of further expansion of NATO to the East and the deployment of strike weapons that could threaten the territory of Russian Federation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Unless United States doesn't go to bed with Ukraine, I don't think so.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I can’t say whether or not we are on the right path, we will understand this when we get the American response on paper to all the points in our proposals.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We can’t accept demands about our armed forces on our own territory.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While our proposals are aimed at reducing the military confrontation, de-escalating the overall situation in Europe, exactly the opposite is happening in the West. NATO members are building up their strength and aviation. In the territories that are directly adjacent to Ukraine, on the Black Sea, the scale of exercises has increased many times recently.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
So if NATO still refuses to discuss this theme or the guarantees or ideas put forward by the President of Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin, of course we will take measures to ensure that our security, our sovereignty and our territorial integrity does not depend on anyone else.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Kyiv is becoming increasingly insolent in its aggressiveness towards the Minsk agreements, the Russian Federation, and in its attempts to provoke the West to support its military ambitions.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
As a result of NATO’s deliberate moves, we have practically no conditions for elementary diplomatic work and in response to NATO’s actions we suspend the work of our permanent mission to NATO, including the work of the chief military envoy, probably from Nov. 1. Or it may take several more days.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There is a lot of rubble, it’s not easy to rake it up, but I felt that Antony Blinken and his team were determined to do this. It will not be a matter for us.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have serious differences in the assessment of the international situation, we have serious differences in the approaches to the tasks which have to be solved for its normalization, our position is very simple: We are ready to discuss all the issues without exception, but under perception that the discussion will be honest, with the facts on the table, and of course on the basis of mutual respect.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Such actions have taught us one thing: We need to rely on ourselves because the U.S. and its allies aren't reliable partners.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The sanctions wouldn't bring any result. They wouldn't change our course for defending our national interests.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We don’t want to be isolated from international life, but we must be ready for that, if you want peace, you must prepare for war.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We saw yesterday how [ the West ] seized on the news about Navalny's return to the Russian Federation. You can clearly feel the joy with which the carbon-copy comments are incoming, with joy, because it seems to allow Western politicians to think that they will be able to divert attention from the deepest crisis in which the liberal model of development finds itself.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The attempt of Americans to build a unipolar world did not succeed, they understand it. The whole world understands that you can't do without Russia. The very fact of a meeting and dialogue is a vivid confirmation of it. Honor and praise to President Vladimir V. Putin for being able to strengthen Russia's authority in the international arena so that no matter how the Americans and the EU try to exist in confrontation with us, to pressure us with sanctions, they still have to look for ways of getting closer with us. They all still have to come to Russia.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
President Trump, I’m sure, will either say [this] himself or Rex Tillerson [will], this campaign has acquired a rather strange character, because in the course of the months that these allegations have been around, not a single fact has been presented ...
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We demand that the United States should respect the sovereignty of a state and avoid such actions that threaten the current world order.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Attempts of this kind will never be a success. It will never happen.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I am particularly disappointed by the way this damages US-Russia relations.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We have a common determination to reduce the suffering of the Syrian people.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Russian airstrikes will not cease until we truly win over terrorist groups: Daesh (ISIS), Jabhat al-Nusra and such. I see no reason to stop these airstrikes.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
What comes out of parliament's decree is that only when these territories are led by somebody suitable for Kiev will the law on special status come into effect, that is an attempt to turn everything that was agreed upon on its head.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Everyone understands that there isn't an ideal truce and an ideal regime of ceasing fire.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We need to fulfill the main goal: protect the civilian population.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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