Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

It's not enough to be talented. It's not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions.

I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.

I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

The only way to fail for me is just not to try.