People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.
Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
There is no uniform, global model for democracy.
Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.
I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.
There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.
Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.
We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.
In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.
For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
