NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.

Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.

Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.

The biggest nationalist in Russia: that's me.

Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

However, it was not us who refused to freeze oil production; our Saudi partners changed their point of view at the last moment and decided to slow down the adoption of this decision. I would like to reiterate our position, it remains the same.