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.

First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].

The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

However, personally, I see this as not having the right to abuse this trust [among the citizens of Russia and Japan], and any decision we reach should correspond to the national interests of the Russian Federation.