Having control over our resources and feeling that we are true masters of our domain would help us take full responsibility for future progress in the republic.

This is useful and very effective, because returning them to peaceful life is better than fighting.

Since the second Chechen campaign started [in 1999], more than 7,000 militants have given up arms. All of them were amnestied in line with Russian laws. Most of them now form units fighting crime, banditry...

We will no longer let them [Danish organizations] in, precisely for that reason.

evolving into a fully fledged member of the Russian Federation.

I am not a prima donna, but when people respect you, that’s always nice. If I were to say I did not like to feel myself a popular man, then I’d be lying.

We will not allow those in who play with the feelings of 1.5 billion people.

I can die a happy man knowing I have such support. I did not know so many people supported me.