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

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

If today a proposition was made that we felt would lead to an unreasonable use of force, we would act with France or alone.

I am convinced that today terrorism poses the main threat to human rights and freedoms as well as to the sustainable development of states and people,

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