There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.

There is always a chance [for negotiations with Japan], or else it makes no sense to talk. How great is it? Right now, it is difficult for me to say, because this will depend, among other things, on the flexibility of our partners.

We always welcome when somebody says he or she is ready to work with Russia.

After all, despite the scandalous behavior of one and, by the way, the other candidate [they are both , Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, scandalous in their own ways], they are smart, they are really smart and they are aware of the leverages they should use to make the voters in the United States understand them, feel them and hear them.

If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.

Of course, nobody does [want another Cuban Missile Crisis].

Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Parliament. But then Japan refused to implement it and after that the Soviet Union also, so to say, nullified all the agreements reached within the framework of the treaty.