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

The aviation industry, including combat air force, has been traditionally developing here. It is the Russian Far East where the SU aircraft, which are well known worldwide, are manufactured.

The US tactical nuclear weapons are in Europe, let us not forget this. Does it mean that the US has occupied Germany or that the US never stopped the occupation after World War II and only transformed the occupation troops into the NATO forces?

You know every stage of your life has an impact on you.

There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.

I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation.

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