The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.

There is another domain that we consider relevant and having good prospects - marine biology. For many years this region [Russian Far East] has been home for one of the leading institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Marine Biology.

We see Serbs as our spiritual brothers. And that is what is at the base of our relations today and in the future.

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.