“I will be guided by an unwavering principle: Making mistakes is acceptable; lying is not.”
and
“Russia should follow the path of modernized conservatism… Russia can preserve traditional Western values. The West has abandoned these traditional values and moved on to something else – to an anti-traditional mindset within the framework of postmodernism.”
“It is important to preserve traditional Western values, which in a certain sense are the values of Western Christian civilization, European civilization. Russia can become the guardian of these values. This may sound like a paradox, but it’s true. In this respect, it would be wrong to call the West our enemy. But in the West, there are certain elites, and considerable parts of society that are associated with traditional values. And in this respect, they may grasp at this straw, this chance which Russia offers them to preserve some of their values.”
and
“It would be more correct to talk about turning towards the South, not just the East. But in itself, the word ‘turn’ is rather ambiguous, as it implies the ideology of the global world. The global world – at least in the minds of its ideologists – was monocentric. It was composed of the Anglo-Saxon core and ‘old’ Europe which joined it, and together they ruled the world. And Russia somehow fits into this world. In fact, we really tried to fit into it. But now, we have been thrown out. Though we left on our own as well.”
Times are changing and the rift-raft is being tossed out…
WtR