Europe and the United States are not the whole world.

If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that.

Next year [2017], we are going to hold a series of events there that we would like to call Russian Seasons [in Japan]. Over 40 different activities - and what is more, in different cities.

I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.

The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.

As to our trade and economic relations with China, they are growing more and more diverse each day, something we have worked on for a long time with our partners from China.

I have heard this a thousand times. Of course every state has the right to organize its security the way it deems appropriate. But the states that were already in NATO, the member states, could also have followed their own interests - and abstained from an expansion to the east.