To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

The threat of a world war is no more.

In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.

No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.