All issues - purchasing and selling of currency - are related to the regulation of the national currency market. However, it is still difficult to say what will be the reaction of the Central Bank and if it would lead to increasing the gold and foreign currency reserves.

Brazil does have every right to develop its own peaceful nuclear programme.

I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan.

Berlusconi is being tried because he lives with women. If he was homosexual, no one would have lifted a finger against him.

My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.

Donald Trump is a brilliant and talented person, without a doubt.

If there were any in China and Russia in this connection, though we both made some compromises. But these were compromises between friendly countries. I think it is almost impossible to achieve such compromise in other ways.