1.   Fear of authority, especially of the supreme ruler, is one of the central tenets of the Domostroi and is deeply rooted in the Russian mentality even today.

2.   In anticipating that conditions will not improve, the Russians were reverting to a bleak pessimism that long has been a feature of the Russian mentality.

3.   What bothers me most is how people assume it is inevitable, part of the Russian male mentality.

4.   He blasted the tide of foreign imports that has swept over Russia since the Soviet collapse and claimed foreign advertising is warping the Russian mentality.

5.   The suspicious attitude is a matter of Russian mentality, he added.