How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

[Russian forces] managed to do the impossible -- that is to save lives of hundreds, ... We have proven that Russia will not fall to its knees.

I will not allow any destabilization in Russia, in the interests of the ... peoples of the Russian Federation,