Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

We are working in other areas [like ALROSA] as well, so there are no radical changes to our position. It is not the case when we have to, as we say, make a lot of fuss about it. In other words, we do not have to be obsessed with privatizing immediately and at any cost.

Russia and China also cooperate in mechanical engineering, high-speed railway transportation, lumber processing, nuclear energy production and so on. We have built the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant. Two units are already operational and are showing good results.

Russia, as well as any other country, does not need dictators, but it needs equitable principles of organizing the state and society: just, effective, flexibly responding to changes inside and outside the country - that is what Russia needs.

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

I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.