You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.