Яков Кротов

Modern Russia has not the slightest reason to call itself the successor of the ancient Russian land.

Tchaikovsky is as unrelated to Russian culture as Wagner is to German culture: both of them are just great composers.

The Taliban are fighting with the enthusiasm of idealists, and they are opposed by twice as many well-armed people with no ideals other than self-preservation and enrichment.

In Russia, there have never been truly free elections, but there was a choice of two evils, and the greatest evil is carefully preparing for itself a sparring partner, who seems to be an even greater evil.

The peculiarity of Russia is that it was not built in capitalism, not feudalism and not a slave-owning system, an anti-legal state, of which there were very few in the history of civilization.

The true motives of the modern protest movement in Russia are fundamentally different from the motives of the democratic movement of the Soviet era.

This form of protest becomes a means of manipulation not only by enemies, but above all by the friends.

The most dangerous lie is a lie in the name of the salvation of mankind and in the name of preaching the truth.

Russian collectivism differs sharply from normal group behavior when a person maintains critical thinking in relation to others, builds these relations rationally, and deepens as he draws closer.

Yes, they showed the heroism, but it is based on the inability to be professionals, not in medicine, nor in civic and political activity.