I believe a healthy lifestyle is an extremely important thing which underpins solution to numerous important problems, including the health of the nation.

If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.

There is no one else at all who is fighting ISIS on the ground, except for President al-Assad's army.

I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.

The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.

There is another domain that we consider relevant and having good prospects - marine biology. For many years this region [Russian Far East] has been home for one of the leading institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Marine Biology.

However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.