late ping...
I really appreciated your many posts during the crisis and especially for the above translation of the words of President Putin. I must say that picking Putin 12/31/99 was the best thing Yeltsin ever did, and makes me proud that his (our) orthodox faith shines through so brightly.
The words are awesome, and I hope that they become as much a part of the heritage of the Russian people as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has become for us here.