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

I believe that the presidential term should be limited.

There are a lot of hackers today, you know, and they perform their work in such a filigreed and delicate manner and they can show their "tracks" anywhere and anytime. It may not even be a track; they can cover their activity so that it looks like hackers operating from other territories, from other countries. It is hard to check this activity, maybe not even possible. Anyway, we do not do that at the national level.

There is no one else at all who is fighting ISIS on the ground, except for President al-Assad's army.

We in Russia have always considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. I still think so.

In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.

I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one.