Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.

Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'

Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

Knowledge is NOT power. The correct application of knowledge is power.

The greatest energy must be use for work.

Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on.

Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts!

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

You like that analogy? That was pretty good?

Global governance need not take a democratic form.

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.