How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity. One must respect every minority’s right to be different, but the rights of the majority must not be put into question.

European and American values do not fully coincide.

We see Serbs as our spiritual brothers. And that is what is at the base of our relations today and in the future.

I'm still the same. Take the fight against terrorism: after the attacks of September 11, I was the first to side with US President [George W.] Bush. And now, after the attacks in Paris, I have done the same with the President of France,[Oliver] Hollande. Terrorism threatens us all.

Nothing matters for a drastic change in Ukraine more than political transformations.

We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].