"Results" / INTERMETHODS

“There have not always been pages of black history between Russia and Germany. We have always had a lot in common. It’s hard to find a brighter example than the Amber Room.”

Vladimir Putin


(Vyacheslav Shilov)

“I always have it, I have the temperament for everything, don’t worry.”
Yuri Luzhkov

“Whatever victims there may be, the fact remains: there is no longer any gangster power there.”
Vladimir Putin about Chechnya

“For the first time in history, in the new history of Russian-German relations, objects are moving from Russia to Germany and from Germany to Russia on absolutely legal grounds.”
Mikhail Shvydkoy about the exchange of cultural values

“The deputies of this convocation should not be offended that they will begin to be transported to St. Petersburg. This will not affect these deputies. It will affect the new, upcoming, subsequent by-elections.”
Vladimir Yakovlev, Governor of St. Petersburg



(Dmitry Polukhin)

“We don’t know such a city - St. Petersburg! We know the city of Leningrad! And if a new socialist revolution is carried out there, I am for such a transfer!”
Vasily Shandybin, State Duma deputy, Communist Party of the Russian Federation, on the transfer of the State Duma to St. Petersburg

“We won’t work for fifteen days! You can’t imagine what’s happening in pig and sheep farming!”
Nikolai Kharitonov about the holidays

“I must immediately say that, probably, this day is losing more and more the character of a holiday, but is returning to its original, generic nature - that is, it was a day of workers’ solidarity.”
Alexander Kravets, State Duma deputy, Communist Party of the Russian Federation

“According to estimates, for example, by the foreign press, the radio fund, so to speak, ours is estimated at nine, seven, nine billion... I don’t know what. Rubles... Probably in dollars.”
Anatoly Vystorobets, director of the State Television and Radio Fund


(Vadim Petrov)

"We all live in the Moscow region to some extent."
Alexey Klimenko, Head of the State Committee for Environmental Protection of the Moscow Region

“If someone is dissatisfied with something, then this dissatisfaction should be of a purely individual nature, you understand.”
“The situation in the republic, of course, is calm at first glance, but there is reason to be concerned in some areas.”
Vladimir Semenov, head of Karachay-Cherkessia


Listened and recorded by Vova Belozertsev