Character: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Solzhenitsyn refused to take Russia's highest order from the hands of Yeltsin, but he accepted the State prize from Putin.
"Putin - said Solzhenitsyn in an interview with the German magazine "der Spiegel" in 2007 - went to the country, looted and shirlena down, demoralized and impoverished majority of the people. And he took up possible - we note a gradual, slow recovery of her. These efforts were not immediately noticed and appreciated all the more. And can you cite examples in history when measures for the restoration of the fortress of public administration met favorably from the outside?.. The West, celebrating the end of an exhausting cold war and watching a half dozen years of the Gorbachev-Yeltsin anarchy and inside delivery of all items outside, very quickly got used to oblegchenno the idea that Russia is now almost a third world country, and always will be. When Russia again began to strengthen, economically and the state, it was perceived by the West - perhaps on a subconscious level, are deeply ingrained fears, panic..."