Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.

Then, the specialists themselves, probably believe that in the course of EU expansion, for example, some elements concerning the readiness of some economies to enter the Eurozone have not been taken into account.

In order to preserve a balance, while we aren't planning to build a missile defence of our own, as it's very expensive and its efficiency is not quite clear yet, we have to develop offensive strike systems. They [U.S.] should give us all the information about the missile defence, and we will be ready then to provide some information about offensive weapons.

Everything will probably never be Ok. But we have to try for it.

All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism.

[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.

Somebody is always suspecting Russia of having some ambitions, there are always those who are trying to misinterpret us or keep something back.