There are a lot of hackers today, you know, and they perform their work in such a filigreed and delicate manner and they can show their "tracks" anywhere and anytime. It may not even be a track; they can cover their activity so that it looks like hackers operating from other territories, from other countries. It is hard to check this activity, maybe not even possible. Anyway, we do not do that at the national level.

We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority.

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one.

However, crisis in world trade is, among other things, the result of using political tools in competition or simply for achieving political objectives with the help of economic restrictions.

The mutual sympathy of our peoples is and will remain the foundation of our relations [with Germany].

Therefore today we have an absolutely sufficient level of gold and foreign currency reserves in order to ensure economic stability and sustainable foreign trade turnover.