Vladimir Putin Tragedy Quotations

It is bad that such bandit raids are still possible here (in Russia), ... It's a great tragedy that we are sustaining losses among law enforcement officers and peaceful civilians.

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

Let's recall Bosnia in 1995. As we know well, the European peacekeeping contingent, represented by the Dutch troops, did not want to get involved with one of the attacking sides, and allowed it to destroy a whole village. Hundreds of people were killed or injured. The tragedy in Srebrenica is well known in Europe.

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.