The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let us say even over the last decades, we were faced with many problems here. We paid little attention to this territory although it deserves a lot more of it, because it concentrates great wealth as well as opportunities for Russia's future development.

If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.

They are constantly trying to drive us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we tell it like it is and don't engage in hypocrisy. But there is a limit to everything. And with Ukraine, our Western partners have crossed the line, playing the bear and acting irresponsibly and unprofessionally.

Russia will always remember the contribution [of King Fahd] in the development of Russian-Saudi relations, which in recent years were raised to a qualitatively higher level.

Mistakes can occur during hostilities.

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.