President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.

Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and decide themselves who they are: men or women, if they want to have a traditional or homosexual marriage.

I have always thought and I still think that the Central Bank should act independently. Indeed, it does, you can take my word. I do not interfere in the decisions of the Central Bank and I do not give instructions to the Bank management or to its head.

Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.

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

The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.

I know very well about the necessary level of reserves of the Central Bank as well as the purpose.