It is my greatest desire, I want the people in Russia to be happy and I want our partners around the world to seek to develop relations with Russia.

We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.

If there were any in China and Russia in this connection, though we both made some compromises. But these were compromises between friendly countries. I think it is almost impossible to achieve such compromise in other ways.

We have already begun taking concrete steps to change the structure of our economy and, as we have discussed a great deal, to give it a more innovative quality.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.

It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.