With some reservation, it can be said that certain democratic elements are present in Georgia as well; but it is very clear that the government has to pronounce its explicit wish to resign before something is going to happen. On the western front, only Belarus is an exception.

But we must not forget the effort undertaken by the ruling elite in Russia to manipulate Western politicians, businessmen as well as journalists. That's why [Vladimir] Putin's "fifth column" is that powerful in the West.

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

We see threats to liberal democracy coming from lots of directions. We have to create something new, a common response, because in so many places - the UK, France, Germany - ultranationalists and the far left threaten the free market and liberal democracy.

At the northern border of Azerbaijan, Daghestan by no means contributes to the democratization of the Caucasus.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

All women are inferior to men.