I think the gap between the rich and the poor is a dangerous phenomenon in Russia and it needs the attention of the state. The only reasonable way to correct the situation today is not to go after big businesses, but to give breathing room to medium and small businesses. That means protecting citizens and small entrepreneurs from arbitrary rule and from corruption. It means investing the revenues from the national natural resources into the national infrastructure, education and health care. And we must learn to do so without shameful theft and embezzlement.

If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

Which of us can control his feelings?