Considering Ukraine's unfriendly attitude, her strivings toward NATO ... delivering gas at those old prices no longer makes sense.

Events took a turn for the worse there and Ukraine turned out to be an unsound partner in terms of economic cooperation.

Russia has no tradition of passing power from one leader to another without crisis. Each leader rejects the policies of his predecessor, and everyone connected with the old team faces troubles.

Did not reflect the changes in the president's policy, but rather the strengthening of the government.

Iran will seek to drag out the negotiations, because while they are ongoing, the possibility of referral to the U.N Security Council and the possible implementation of economic sanctions are almost zero.

There is real potential for this crisis to spread. In Crimea the population is 95 percent Russian-speaking, but they are forced to [conduct official business] in Ukrainian. There is really explosive material here.

Our audience is the world.

In a situation in which all the other peace mediators have proved to be paralyzed, we have in Russia a chance of giving the negotiating process a second wind.

After a few failures in the struggle with terrorists, public opinion has been very critical of the lack of systematic activity between government agencies. This is an attempt to answer these complaints.