I have heard this a thousand times. Of course every state has the right to organize its security the way it deems appropriate. But the states that were already in NATO, the member states, could also have followed their own interests - and abstained from an expansion to the east.

The issues of political nature should be solved in any country, including in Syria, primarily by its people.

Just take Kosovo: back then, UN bodies decided that Kosovo should become independent of Serbia and that the interests of Serbia's central government had to be subordinated. You can read that in all the records, also in the German ones.

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

I will not meddle in America's internal political squabbles.