History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
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We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
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Why does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant.
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No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.
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There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.
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