Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.

One of the most important tasks is to broaden the energy supply ... Energy determines today international security and social as well as economic development in many respects. In reality the wellbeing of millions of people is directly dependent in energy security.

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

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

Addressing issues, including controversial ones, as well as domestic issues of the former Soviet Republics through the so-called coloured revolutions, through coups and unconstitutional means of toppling the current government. That is absolutely unacceptable.

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