I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016].

Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was a small country, a small republic. And what is it now? I have looked though the recent statistics, today the population of this country is 1.4 mln people. Where are the people? More than half of the citizens have left the country.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.