Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. Archival photoVOLGOGRAD, July 17 Everyone cannot be liked, such attempts end in failure — states lose their sovereignty, said Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. «We must perceive the world as it is. Our country cannot to please all states. And attempts to please the vast majority of countries, as a rule, end in failure for states. Such states lose their sovereignty — either completely, or at least partially, and become someone's satellites, «he said at a meeting with veterans of the Great Patriotic War. 
Medvedev called for a completely independent foreign policy and was not anyone's satellite.» «Our country has always pursued its own independent, sovereign, as they say, course. This I do not like. And most likely, they won't like it,» he said.
