It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.

I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.

Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President [Mikhail] Gorbachev and other Soviet officials.

President Obama and I can meet, shake hands and discuss current issues, we - and I am personally - are always ready for such contacts.

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

I hope that there will be no particular need for us to attract external funding. It is worth noting that despite the fact the turnover is smaller now we are still maintaining a trade surplus.

I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.