I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

Constructs like race will decline in relevance in a roboticized world. That how well one human subset or community - a race, a nationality, a religion - is doing will be secondary to how well humanity in general is doing in face of the robot revolution.

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

There's the blazing Russian Caucasus, with an ongoing war all against all, which is not to be neglected.