Indeed, For Almost 10 Years, Moscow Had

Look At Islam In A Rational Manner And Without Demagoguery Or Emotion. It Is The Leading Religion Of The World With 1.5 Billion Followers. But What Is There In Common Among Saudi Arabian Fundamentalism, Moderate Morocco, Pakistan Militarism, Egyptian Pro-western Or Central Asian Secularism? Nothing More Than What Unites The Christian Countries.

Bipartisanship Helps To Avoid Extremes And Imbalances. It Causes Compromises And Accommodations. So Let's Cooperate.

Persisting Social Crisis, The Emergence Of A Charismatic Personality, And The Exploitation Of Mass Media To Obtain Public Confidence Would Be The Steppingstones In The Piecemeal Transformation Of The United States Into A Highly Controlled Society.

Russia's Only Real Geostrategic Option - The Option That Would Give Russia A Realistic International Role And Also Maximize The Opportunity Of Transforming And Socially Modernizing Itself - Is Europe.

With Its Declining Population, With People Moving Out Of The Far East, With An Enormously Powerful China In The East, I Think The Real Destiny Of Russia Is To Become Closer To The West.