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.

A happy love needs to be reciprocated.

Are we not concerned, for example, by the growing danger related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile technology? All of this poses a clear threat to the world, to the region. However, we have obvious points of convergence that are related to our interests.

For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks.

Here is an example: while resolving current issues, our American colleagues made a proposal on the Syrian settlement but then suddenly declared at the UN that they were not going to discuss anything with us. It is necessary to understand what people want in one department versus another department of the United States. Do they have a common position? And this happened many times on very many areas of our cooperation.