In Putin's world, and in mine, it is inconceivable that women be harassed and raped in public.

Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.

The political elite in Russia don't want domestic reform, they aren't ready for it. As such, they welcome an external threat. You have to remember that Russia rests on two national concepts: defense and sovereignty. We approach the question of security much more reverentially than other countries do.

In Putin's world, and in mine, it is inconceivable that women be harassed and raped in public.

In a crisis, we will destroy exactly the weapons. Russia will never again fight on its own territory .

For the next decades, Europe will not be a model that is attractive to Russia.

The German chancellor said that our president lives in a different world. I believe he lives in a very real world.