It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.

Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept.

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

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