Evening with Vladimir Solovyov (№ 413725)

The tragedy is that what you call dialogue (with the West) is an ultimatum on their part. This is not how dialogues are conducted. Having arrived on the territory of a great state, indulging in ultimatum formulations is at least not diplomatic, not to mention that it is not at all polite. And unfortunately, the manner that they took - to come to us and allow themselves such formulations, by the way, this is not the case in our Russian diplomacy. We are very correct. But the West for some reason always confuses that the bear attacks without prior warnings, confuses it with weakness.