As for the President-elect [Donald Trump], he has his own views on things, and this is also fairly natural.

I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.

We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].

The goal we have set for ourselves, which is to diversify our cooperation with China, is making progress.

Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.

The fight against terrorism is something very real and practical for us. This is a fight to preserve our territorial integrity, and in this sense we need to have the instruments and create an environment in Russia that would make it impossible for the international terrorist organisations to achieve the aims they have set for themselves here.

Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.