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

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.

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.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

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

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.