We'll be ruthless with rebels

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

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.

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

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.