"Results" / INTERMETHODS

“They invited him for a walk, that is, to a reception, for dinner, and in fact they arranged this... Where will he have dinner now?”
Viktor Chernomyrdin about the arrest of Pavel Borodin in New York


(Victor Bogorad)

“Well, Bush is generally such a collective image.”
Dmitry Rogozin, head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs

“This was payment to the Soviet Union and Russia for the transition to democracy. They don’t pay the same bill twice, so it’s unclear why they are now demanding more money from us.”
Alexey Mitrofanov on the return of debts to the Paris Club of creditors

“I fully support Nikolai Kharitonov’s statement here that Borodin was arrested as a Russian man, as a patriot who did not allow the Kremlin and all his property to be sold.”
Vasily Shandybin

"You understand very well when you watch the program on TV screens who is behind bars. As a rule, these are children between the ages of 16 and 30."
Egor Stroev

“We have one legislator - the Duma, the Federation Council and the president.”
“And why, as they say, cut the chicken that lays eggs?”
Vladimir Ustinov, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, on reforms in the prosecutor’s office


(Vyacheslav Shilov)

“According to the information we have, he is a fairly well-to-do person, so that he could impose something on something, say, or something somewhere, and it won’t work out there in Chechnya.”
Akhmad Kadyrov, head of the Chechen administration, on the possible appointment of Stanislav Ilyasov as Prime Minister of Chechnya

“No matter how you feed the wolf, no matter how you help him, he still looks the other way.”
Viktor Kazantsev, presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Southern Federal District, about the kidnappers of Kenneth Gluck


(Nikolai Vorontsov)

“If you speak out against those bills that are against those laws that exist in Russia, this is also politicization, but politicization then in a negative sense, which denies the bills that exist and are in force in the Russian Federation.”
Nikolai Loktionov, Chairman of the Committee on Regulations and Organization of Work of the State Duma


Listened and recorded by Vova Belozertsev