Radicals can be found in any environment.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.

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

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

We spoke about economic sanctions only recently in Lima, within the framework of APEC. Almost all the leaders represented at APEC (the Asia Pacific region), Pacific countries, spoke about the same thing, namely, that we are going through a very acute crisis in world trade, international trade, related, among other things, to restrictions on the markets of certain countries.

It is well known, widely known that the US President-elect [Donald Trump] has publicly spoken in favour of normalising Russian-American relations. We cannot but support this. Of course, we understand that it will not be an easy job, taking into account the degree to which Russian-American relations have degraded. But we are ready to cover our part of the way.