I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.

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.

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.

We in Russia have always considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. I still think so.

Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.