Political populism always poses a great danger because it disorients people, creates excessive expectations or, on the contrary, prioritises objectives that are clearly not priorities or are simply impossible to achieve.

I am very grateful to our people who appreciate my work and for their support, as without that support it would have been impossible to get anything done.

Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.

We would like to draw the attention of our partners, of potential investors to the Russian Far East.

Somebody is always suspecting Russia of having some ambitions, there are always those who are trying to misinterpret us or keep something back.

It is a fact that the US defence budget is larger than the defence budgets of all other countries taken together. This is why I understand the US President when he says that his NATO allies should take over part of this burden. It is a pragmatic and understandable approach.

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.