Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

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

Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won. But that doesn't mean we can have a devil-may-care attitude toward this threat. We must do everything to stop these threats and not give the terrorists a single chance to demonstrate their brutality and hatred of mankind.

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.