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

We discussed this very important issue yesterday over a beer.

If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.

If someone is willing to reconsider the results of World War II, let us discuss this. But then we will have to discuss not only Kaliningrad, but also the eastern lands of Germany, the city of Lvov, a former part of Poland, and so on, and so forth. There are also Hungary and Romania on the list.

Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?

I do not know whether the Government will be able to get ready to conduct this transaction together with the management of Rosneft itself, whether the appropriate strategic investors will be found. And I believe it is about such investors that we should talk. But we are getting ready, and it is in the current year that we are planning to do this.

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