As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.

- Vladislav Surkov

The West doesn't have to love us. In fact, we should ask ourselves more often why people are so suspicious of us. After all, the West isn't a charity…

- Vladislav Surkov

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested i…

- Vladislav Surkov

I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.

- Vladislav Surkov

I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

- Vladislav Surkov

Parties can't be artificially assembled at the Kremlin.

- Vladislav Surkov

The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own.

- Vladislav Surkov

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with ou…

- Vladislav Surkov