I would like to repeat: I know absolutely nothing about [hacker's attacks], and Russia has never done anything like this at the State level.

How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.

It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.

We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority.

60 percent of Syria is controlled either by ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra or other terrorist organisations, organisations that have been recognised as terrorist by the United States, as well as other countries and the UN. It is them and not anyone else who have control over 60 percent of Syrian territory.

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.