We are negotiating with our partners about holding conferences on Russian-Jewish Paris and Russian-Jewish Berlin.

Now came the time to reach some conclusions and see how these Russian Jews ... live in New York - the main center of Russian-Jewish emigration.

That wave of color revolutions scared Lukashenko, and it made the Kremlin back away from any idea of holding dialogue with any other political forces in Belarus. The Ukrainian example looks like poison to them.

That's a card our negotiating partners have which gives them a certain leverage, a certain influence over the U.S..

One has to acknowledge that some of the demands and claims made by our [WTO] negotiating partners are fair. Fakes on [Russia's] domestic market are, indeed, assuming menacing proportions.

this triangular relationship involving Berlin, Paris and Moscow was a dangerous development. It was very dangerous for the small countries in Europe because they perceived it as an axis and you can understand why. We want good relations with Russia but we do not want those relations to be misunderstood.