It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

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

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

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

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.