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.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

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

Of course, nobody does [want another Cuban Missile Crisis].

In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and to do so, incidentally, on the basis of the 1956 declaration. I agreed. Since then we have conducted dialogue in this regard but I cannot say that our Japanese partners and friends have remained within the limits of the 1956 declaration.

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.