were to return to dust, the period of his rule will remain the brightest and most romantic in Russia's 20th-century history -- simply because Russia had not experienced such high expectations for a very long time. |
What can I say? The year was difficult for this country, for many of you, and for me, too. But New Year's Eve is always about new hopes, new dreams, new plans, |
What we really need is not their money but their trust, |
While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare |
will be able to unite those who will renew the great Russia in the 21st century. |
will not allow Kosovo to be touched. |
With pain I learned about the tragedy that has struck your family, ... You have lost the most loyal and devoted friend. Gone is a wonderful person, a beautiful woman, a loving wife and mother. |
You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. |
You have lost the truest and most devoted friend. The most outstanding person, the most wonderful woman, a loving wife and mother has passed away, |
You have no right to criticize Russia for Chechnya, ... We are obliged to put an end to the spread of the cancer of terrorism. |
You have to be more careful in a world filled with all types of weapons, some of which are in the hands of terrorists. All of this is very dangerous. You can't threaten like that, that you'll send in planes and bombs -- no! |
you wait for flowers and gifts from us on this day. Of course you have deserved them, deserved them in every way. In the way that the Olympic gold of our women in Nagano was the best present to Russian men. |