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

Europe and the United States are not the whole world.

The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.

Russia, as well as any other country, does not need dictators, but it needs equitable principles of organizing the state and society: just, effective, flexibly responding to changes inside and outside the country - that is what Russia needs.

We do not trade territories although concluding a peace treaty with Japan is certainly a key issue and we would like to find a solution to this problem together with our Japanese friends.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

The issues of political nature should be solved in any country, including in Syria, primarily by its people.