The biggest nationalist in Russia: that's me.

I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.

Of course Germany's media are heavily influenced by the country on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?

I will not meddle in America's internal political squabbles.

Sanctions have nothing to do with this [relations with the People's Republic of China]. The decline in our mutual trade has objective causes, which are the energy prices and the exchange rate difference. But the physical volumes have not decreased, quite the opposite actually. They are growing.