Donald Trump envies anyone who can do things he can't.

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

When you say politics, you conjure a whole bunch of associations: elections, campaigning, debates, fundraising. None of this exists in Russia! We are still fighting not for election victories but for having elections at all.

When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

I try to play, always, beautiful games...always I wanted to create masterpieces.

The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.

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