Russia is probably one of the first countries to have been confronted with this problem of terrorism. It took some time before the international community realised the danger terrorism poses.

There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.

Political populism always poses a great danger because it disorients people, creates excessive expectations or, on the contrary, prioritises objectives that are clearly not priorities or are simply impossible to achieve.

If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.

There is also a huge potential for developing the aviation and space industries. As you might have noticed we have launched a new Russian spaceport in one of the Far Eastern regions.

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.