Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.

The new European Soviet.

The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

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

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability.