A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.

We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

Some think that Russia should become a kind of a U.S. province, where it should supply natural resources to the United States and the rest of the world. But these people ignore one very important thing: The Russian people will never agree to this scenario. Russia is ultimately a self-sufficient country.

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

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.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

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