It also happens, rather often, that politicians do not actually talk to each other but only to one another's shadows as they appear in the media.

Many people hardly ever see a politician as a person anymore. Instead, a politician is a shadow they watch on television, not knowing whether he is speaking im…

I have had direct experience of this myself. Often, what the press wrote, or did not write, about a remark I made somewhere proved to be of a far greater conse…

I also appeal to those who have already done most of their work for society. I hope that the changes you awaited or worked for for so long will bring joy and s…

The day after the fall of Khrushchev, the editors of Pravda, Izvestiia, the heads of the radio and television were replaced; the army wasn't called out. Today …

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a gen…