If we calculate the average amount of trees, clean water and good air per person, Russia will come out to be the most environmentally sound country in the world.

[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,

If Russia and China back Iran on the compromise option [the joint venture], then the issue will not be pushed on to the UN Security Council without consent from Moscow and Beijing.

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

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.