In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

There is a long-felt need to confer legal status onto the activity of Cossack units, ... Today, the Cossack movement is reviving.

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

We had to pay a ... high price for restoring the territorial integrity of Russia and today we are bowing our heads to the memory of the military and civilians who ... paid with their lives to have our country strong and inseparable,

Today I told George that in Russia we, too, will draw our conclusions