For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.