Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken by its past, and our past would be our future.

The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.

Germans, Frenchmen and Englishmen can say of themselves: "I am the state." I cannot say that. In Russia only the people in the Kremlin can say that. All other citizens are nothing more than human material with which they can do all kinds of things.

In Russia only those who are loyal to the people in power can become wealthy.

Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken by its past, and our past would be our future.

In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.

The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.