The US tactical nuclear weapons are in Europe, let us not forget this. Does it mean that the US has occupied Germany or that the US never stopped the occupation after World War II and only transformed the occupation troops into the NATO forces?

I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016].

The natural economic, humanitarian and social integration, do not require any armed forces.

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

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

We have every reason to say, and I note this with great satisfaction, that a truly friendly relationship has evolved with China, and in many key areas these relations, without any exaggeration, have a strategic character. As we say, the strategic character of privileged partnership.

We have good personal relationship with President Obama, our relations are quite frank and business-like. And this is quite enough to do our job.