If you are determined to become a complete Islamic radical and are ready to undergo circumcision, then I invite you to Moscow. We are multi-confessional. We have experts in this sphere as well. I will recommend to conduct the operation so that nothing on you will grow again.

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Commenting to a journalist from Le Monde after a summit meeting with leaders from the European Union (11 November 2002), as cited in "Why Putin Boils Over: Chechnya Is His Personal War", The New York Times (13 November 2002).

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