I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

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

Of course, we will work towards that end. Of course, we will work to achieve this result. However, you have just mentioned the 1956 agreement, and one may recall that these negotiations were later terminated, in effect, on Japan's initiative.

It has nothing to do with any kind of exchange or sale [of Kuril island to Japan]. It is about the search for a solution when neither party would be at a disadvantage, when neither party would perceive itself as conquered or defeated.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a grave social situation in Russia; our social protection system was destroyed; numerous problems emerged which we have not been able to cope with effectively yet, to get rid of them, in health, sports development.

Everything will probably never be Ok. But we have to try for it.

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.