The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.
China has created very good investment tools, including an entire network of very large funds. The Russian Private Investment Fund works with some of those funds, with China's largest investment funds.
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.
You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
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.
The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.
No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia.
For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.
Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.
I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
Libya is divided into tribes and clans.
I spend a little time every day to play sports.
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.
My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.
