Medvedev says ready to die for his ideals

PanARMENIAN.Net - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told a student at Moscow State University who asked him a challenging question that he is ready to defend his ideals to the bitter end, RIA Novosti reported.

Medvedev met with journalism faculty students at the university, when a student asked him: “A serious revolutionary situation is brewing up in the country… What will be your personal behavior strategy during a revolution?”

“Are you ready to stand a popular trial and defend each of your decisions and ideals?” the student asked. “Do you realize that you may even be sentenced to death? Are you ready to accept it bravely and clearly, like Saddam Hussein did, or will you emigrate to friendly North Korea?”

Medvedev said: “You have probably asked the boldest question in your life. I congratulate you on that… I will answer you extremely honestly. Any person elected to the presidential post must be prepared for everything, and I am also ready for everything.”

The president said that despite various predictions regarding Russia’s future of and the March elections, revolution is out of the question.

“I do not want the events in our country to develop in line with a revolutionary or any other extreme scenario and, to tell you the truth, I do not see enough prerequisites for this,” he said.

The persistent student then once again asked the president whether he was prepared to die for his ideals.

“If you need a clear answer - of course I am ready to die for my ideals,” Medvedev said.