On January 21, 2005, at an extended meeting of the board of the Prosecutor General’s Office , Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov outlined his vision for the selection of prosecutorial personnel: “I read from the outstanding Russian philosopher Ilyin that aristocrats should rule a democratic state at all stages. For leadership in any management system, including ours, “Only the best, only the aristocrats of the profession should be admitted.”

On April 25, 2005, President Vladimir Putin, in his message to the Federal Assembly, criticizing the government for abusing “the administrative levers it has,” said: “State power,” wrote the great Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin, “has its limits, indicated precisely by the fact that it there is power that approaches a person from the outside... And all creative states of the soul and spirit, presupposing love, freedom and good will, are not subject to the jurisdiction of state power and cannot be prescribed by it'... ".

On February 3, 2006, Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov, at an expanded board of the Prosecutor General's Office, began discussing the authority of prosecutors with a quote from Ivan Ilyin: “Can someone who does not accept the goal of his state be called a citizen?”

On February 7, 2006, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov, in a speech to listeners at the center for party studies and personnel training of the United Russia party, speaking about the crisis after the collapse of the USSR, resorted to a quote from Ivan Ilyin: “When the collapse of the communist system becomes an accomplished fact, the real Russia will will begin to revive, the Russian people will see themselves without a leading layer. Of course, the place of this layer will be temporarily occupied by sedentary and transient people, but their presence will not resolve the issue."

On May 10, 2006, in his message to the Federal Assembly , President Vladimir Putin, speaking about the role of the army, said: “The famous Russian thinker Ivan Ilyin, reflecting on the basic principles on which the Russian state should firmly stand, noted that soldier is a high and honorable rank. And that 'he represents all-Russian national unity, Russian state will, strength and honor' ."

ALEXANDER KUKOLEVSKY

As Ivan Ilyin was quoted