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There was an attack on our citizens in South Ossetia since most people had a Russian passport and thus Russian citizenship.

— Sergey Lavrov Talking about the Georgian War (2008)

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We think that additional steps, including the cancellation of the no-fly zone, should be taken.

We believe this would be a huge mistake and we hope that this would never happen.

If something goes wrong in Syria, many countries of the region will feel a negative impact. We can’t support isolation because of the lesson we drew from Libya.

In a number of Western countries, students learn at school that Jesus Christ was bisexual.

News conference following the 25th OSCE Ministerial Council, Milan, Italy (2018)

We believe that the coalition's intervention in the civil war in Libya has not, essentially, been sanctioned by the UN Security Council resolution, its only purpose is to ensure the protection of the civilian population.

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