No one except for al-Assad's army is fighting against ISIS or other terrorist organisations in Syria, no one else is fighting them on Syrian territory. Minor airstrikes, including those by the United States aircraft, do not resolve the issue in essence; in fact, they do not resolve it at all.

Life would be boring without gossip.

There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.

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

If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

There are also other areas. For example, culture. This is extremely important. We keep revisiting sport, judo, because I practice it, but other than that, there is also culture. Every year events that are in some way or other related to Russia take place in Japan.