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

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.

I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There was nothing behind it really.

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.

I wish that in the course of my visit to places the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] calls home, all of a sudden, we would reach a clear understanding on how we can resolve the matters. We will be very glad if that happens. Are there any chances? Perhaps.

Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.

There are many other areas. And I am confident that each of them is of interest to both the people of the United States of America and the Russian people.