When the ruble is weaker, it is easier to sell, to produce here for a cheap ruble and sell for an expensive dollar, get revenue in dollars and then exchange it for rubles and get a bigger income. This is simple.

We have made mistakes! We were too late. If we had presented our national interests more clearly from the beginning, the world would still be in balance today.

How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.

Russia should be an effective and competitive state with a sustainable economy, developed social and political system flexible to changes domestically and globally.

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.

This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.