After all, China is our largest trading partner. As I said, country-wise, Russia trades the most with China. That is my first point.

Today, terrorism threatens a great number of states, a great number of people - hundreds of thousands, millions of people suffer from its criminal activity. And we all face the task of joining our efforts in the fight against this common evil.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

Mistakes can occur during hostilities.

The stability of the rate is the main issue and the Central Bank manages to ensure it one way or another. This was finally achieved after the Central Bank switched to a floating national currency exchange rate.

There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.