They also know that democracy requires a foreign policy Russia's people can support.
There will soon be no more money available for everything in which democracy requires the government to play an active role.
Real democracy, opponents say, requires more than one political party.
Democracy requires us, above all, to look at the needs and desires of the people themselves.
It is because democracy requires a certain kind of citizen.
That's what a democracy requires, not the anything goes spirit of the entertainment world.
But democracy requires evolution and cannot be put into place overnight.
"Democracy requires the amount of transparency necessary to understand what our leaders actually do," he said.
But in fact it does, because democracies require honest information even more than military planners.
Democracy requires of course that we accept "the people's" decision as given at the ballot box.