We may have more control, but my point is that, strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a state company. I think that this is an obvious fact, as a foreign investor has a 19.7 percent stake in it.

We see and realise that the political situation in the United States is influenced by those who have lost the elections but refuse to accept their defeat, and who continue to use the anti-Russia card and various allegations most actively in the political infighting. This is why we are in no hurry, we are ready to wait, yet we strongly hope that Russian-US relations will become normal again sometime in the future.

Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to BP. Who's company is that? British Petroleum, isn't it? I suppose that is not bad. I have to tell that British Petroleum's capitalization is significantly related to the fact that it owns more than 19 percent of Rosneft, which has vast oil reserves both in Russia and abroad. This has its impact on the company's stability as well.

If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.

Even with the help of anti-Russian propaganda in the mass media, Germany has not succeeded in damaging this sympathy.

The climate is changing. This year we have come to understand this when we faced events that resulted in fires.

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