Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

We have firmly adopted a stance of saying 'no' to the force scenario. It is impossible. It means an world war,

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.