Author of quotes: Dimitri Simes

The situation, from my point of view, very serious. I thought less about what happens in Syria, though it is also very serious, and I thought about the ultimatum Theresa may. Because, apart from what her evidence and what she really thinks, she was to assume her or, at least, had to explain that in the form in which the ultimatum was presented to Russia, it was virtually impossible to perform. I call it: "Sarajevo moment". Remember, when in 1914, the year of Austria presented Serbia an ultimatum that Serbia is certainly not able to perform, after the assassination of the Austrian Archduke. And here still Russia is not Serbia, and yet a retired Russian Colonel is not an English Prince, the crown Prince. And here I am trying to understand why Theresa may did what she did.

Much of what we now know [the dirt on the line of sexual harassment], this is really serious and very nasty. That's one of the people who recently lost his job, I saw in one of new York's restaurants several times in the company of girls, about fifty, maybe more, years younger than him. And frankly, they were in appearance small of an intellectual. And especially remember a conversation with one of them, as they say in America - in the spirit of complete self-exposure, I had dinner with the late Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, and here was this man, who has now lost everywhere work, he repeatedly Churkin interviewed on his program, came up to say Hello, and he came with a girl, and then he went somewhere further, and the girl remained standing in front of our table, and this man presented a girl to like polka. And suddenly the girl said Ambassador Churkin, in good Russian: "I wanted so much to meet You, I do, in fact, the passport should be extended!" And Churkin says to her: "Wait, but you're from Poland!?" "No," she says, " I'm from Russia, from Pskov, but he was like she said about his patron - that I was from Poland." And, of course, that this was not based on great love, and not even on the basis of some passion, was the mass exploitation of women the people, on which they depended. But now these revelations, of course, begin to achieve some level of hysteria. And what especially bothers me is that people accused of some very serious things, even crimes, and punish them without a trial, investigators, without any opportunity to justify. And it is believed that the person somehow was able to survive, he need to confess his guilt preemptively, to say that he did it under the influence of alcohol and drugs, be removed to the appropriate hospital for rehabilitation, and only then can he hope for some forgiveness in the future. That is, the exploitation of women was unattractive, but that is the hysteria that is happening now, too, causes me concern.