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

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare

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.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.