Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration could not be fulfilled unilaterally, by the USSR alone.

We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.

I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan.

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.

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .

Russian police force, fortunately, so far, do not use batons, tear gas or any other extreme measures of instilling order, something that we often see in other countries, including in the United States. Speaking of opposition, let us recall the movement Occupy Wall Street. Where is it now? The law enforcement agencies and special services in the US have taken it apart, into little pieces, and have dissolved it.