Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

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

This is not our job, but we always follow the actions of our European partners closely and we wish them luck.

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

I think that a person cannot be criminally or otherwise prosecuted, his or her rights cannot be infringed upon the grounds of nationality, ethnicity or sexual orientation in the modern world. It is absolutely unacceptable. And it is not the case in Russia.

A foreign threat is useful to put things in order in one's own camp, to make one's allies follow the bloc discipline. Iran does not fit this role too well, and it is very tempting to revive Russia's image of the enemy. But nobody in Europe is afraid anymore.

Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.