We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

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

The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.

It has nothing to do with any kind of exchange or sale [of Kuril island to Japan]. It is about the search for a solution when neither party would be at a disadvantage, when neither party would perceive itself as conquered or defeated.

I have great love and respect for Russian history and culture. But the world is changing and Russia is too. Russia is part of the modern world, not the world of the past but the modern world. And I believe it has an even greater future than some other countries that can't take care of their young people, of the new generations, of their children, and believe that they can just let things slide.

I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.