Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

Thieves must sit in prison.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.