Lake Baikal in Russia has 25 percent of the freshwater resources of the world. Sixty-five percent of the Russian ecosystems are in danger. So let's preserve what we have, and let's take good care of nature.

My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

It is really important to solve the problem of rational utilization and distribution of wate supplies. I dare say, the shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

The new European Soviet.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.