The situation in North Korea is the obvious example because the situation a year ago seemed much worse than today.

India and China are our strategic partners and we cooperate with them on a very wide range of questions, ... Three-sided exercises are possible in principle but then we should have to then move to the SCO.

They have been unified and are to be supplied both to the Strategic Missile Forces and the Navy.

[Moscow has been helping the Northern Alliance because] the Taliban was openly supported by Pakistan, ... until last week, Pakistani servicemen had taken part in war operations on the Taliban side.

All the short-term plans have been coordinated. Since 2004, the ministry has been allowed to conclude long-term [three-year] contracts with defense industry enterprises.

The transfer of a Russian aircraft group to Sudan to join the peacekeeping operation under the auspices of the UN will begin in three days.