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

In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and to do so, incidentally, on the basis of the 1956 declaration. I agreed. Since then we have conducted dialogue in this regard but I cannot say that our Japanese partners and friends have remained within the limits of the 1956 declaration.

As for meetings, I think the President-elect [Donald Trump] should be given an opportunity to first form his administration and assume office. Meetings will come next.

This is not our job, but we always follow the actions of our European partners closely and we wish them luck.

We should not forget either about the interests of the regular consumers who need the prices in supermarkets to be a little bit lower.

Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr. McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years. Anyone [in his place] would go nuts.

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.