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I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.

Boris Yeltsin

I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: “Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.
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Lying Principle Society
A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.
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Country People Population
One could see that what you are writing was that today’s meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
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President Time Writing
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state – a new idea, this – even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.
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Affairs Country Ideas People Rights
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
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Flame Mean Men
Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country… They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
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Clouds Country Night
We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live.
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Country Living People Ready
International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
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Challenges Country People Terrorism
I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.
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Ask Forgive Past People
We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.
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Country Peace People Political Want
I understand that it’s hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions… we’ll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we’ll have to work on overcoming it.
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Giving Overcoming Work
Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.
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Money Temptation Tests
We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.
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Country People Work
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
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Firsts Hammer Wall
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia’s history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.
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Country Errors Mistakes People
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
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Courage Inspirational Thinking
Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won’t last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.
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And Speech Freedom Last War
Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.
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Ideas Sky Talking
I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.
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Believe Blood Men
We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. Freedom is like that. It’s like air. When you have it, you don’t notice it.
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Air Freedom Yoga
I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That’s my way to relax.
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Crazy Mad Tree
I will not step down, I will not resign, … I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.
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Office Running Years
Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.
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Country Ideas People Territory World
Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.
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Country Independence People Remember
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
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Government Pairs Sock
A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
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Action Issues Killing

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