Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

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

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

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

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

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