We'll do our utmost in order to complete the negotiations this year. By the autumn, I think we'll have a clear understanding of whether we can do it or not.

The position on banks and insurance has not changed. We consider their opening as impossible.

In March 2007, Russia could become a member.

Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility

Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme

At that moment, I saw it in the skating lounge. I just heard the audience scream and I saw the people laying on the ice. I just tried to stay far away from that emotionally and not get involved inside.