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The XXI century will be a сentury either of total all-embracing crisis or of moral and spiritual healing that will reinvigorate humankind. It is my conviction that all of us - all reasonable political leaders, all spiritual and ideological movements, all  faiths - must help in this transition to a triumph of humanism and justice, in making the XXI century a century of a new human renaissance.
 

     
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29 June 2007

Statement from Mikhail Gorbachev on support for Sochi 2014

     «Russia continues to change and grow. Such a process is never easy in the world's largest country but I am confident that the Games would serve as a source of progress, boosting our all important transition and bringing all the Russian people together around the Olympic ideals».
     «Now more than ever, Russia has proved itself to be a committed and reliable partner for the IOC, a partner that would stage an exceptional Games, and a partner that would take the outmost of what the Olympic Spirit which has the power to instil in a nation: progress, openness to the world and inspiration for future generations».
     «The Winter Olympic Games in Russia for the first time in our history stand as a historic opportunity for the Olympic Movement to mark Russia’s future forever».