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

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

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

American politicians have openly said that the sanctions are aimed at bringing about regime change in Russia. That’s aggressive enough.

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

I am of the opinion that we shouldn’t turn away from Europe. We have to find ways to revitalize our relations.

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

It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.

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.