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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.

Boris Yeltsin

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
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
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
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
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
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
Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.
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Ideas Sky Talking
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
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
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Government Pairs Sock
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
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.
BORIS YELTSIN

Courage Inspirational Thinking
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
International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
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Challenges Country People Terrorism
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
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

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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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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