‘The acts by the US side run counter to all key norms of international law’

'Extending the hand of diplomacy' does not entail sending bombers and then crow about their failure as a success

Try real and honest diplomacy instead of attempting to deceive the world — Aragchi

It's populated by people with very different mindsets. If you go to western Ukraine you' 11 se·e villages where the · only spoken language is Hungarian and people we~r those bonnets. In the east, people .are wearing suits, ties and big hats. NATO is perceived by a large part of the Ukrainian population as a hostile organization. ~ This creates the following problems for Russia. This creates the threat of military bases and new military systems being deployed in the proximity of Russia. It created uncertainties and threats for us. And relying on the.anti-NATO forces in Ukraine, Russia would be working on stripping NATO of the possibility of enlarging

What surprised·me when I was there, they maybe crazy in their ideology·but they're intellectuals. They are educated in university, come from an academic environment -including Amadinejad, his entourage, the Speaker of parliament. They are not primitive people: It was quite a surprise to me.

You and I had a conversation about the S-300 and you said you'd wait to see how they behave a conditional sale, and I appreciate that — George Bush

Something is coming to Africa from the West that I call the black winter. Black winter is coming. It could be a very cold winter, a bloody winter, a murderous winter.