Author of quotes: Yuri Y. Boldyrev

Progress is not odnaznachno, progressive. From the fact that we once failed in our historical process to create a society more free, more fair, does not mean that these attempts need to stop.

I worked [in government agencies] until there was a struggle between good and evil. And then the evil won. Before Yeltsin's departure and the election of President Putin was a constant struggle. In the State Duma was stiff opposition to Yeltsin. All that intense crashing now (education, health, and so on) in the 90s and institutional [i.e. by means of laws] to destroy could not. Because the path was a left-natsionalnoorientirovanny the State Duma. Finally broke them during events, when he exploded in the house, when a "great national leader" to "protect" people from "evil Chechens" and reign as a Savior and liberator. From that moment the fight was almost stopped.

We have too strong was stamped concept of the universal internationalism, that the world couldn't get any worse and can only become better; you just have a little string up. We had the idea that freedom is an absolute good and all men are brothers.

You don't know how life will go on. But you have to live, knowing that you have to be ready for tomorrow challenges. I don't want to beat my head against the wall. You just have to be a normal person. It is necessary to maintain contacts with other people, to help other people. It is necessary to grow a leader, to communicate with people. Have to keep your reputation that people could trust you with not only 100 rubles, and something more. Tomorrow it may be a situation when you will be in demand. It may occur and may not occur. But if there is, you have to be ready for it. And if not there, then you should not think that life is lived in vain. You still lived the life of a normal person.