Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.

We believe we have no territorial problems at all. It is only Japan that believes it has territorial problems with Russia. We are ready to talk about this.

The goal we have set for ourselves, which is to diversify our cooperation with China, is making progress.

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.