Question: I am not asking you to comment, but still… We saw President Emmanuel Macron being publicly slapped in the face by his wife. Ahead of that we saw the napkin footage. In general, there were many different situations where European leaders were involved, which confirmed the impression that something odd, to put it mildly, was happening to the political elites over there.  Does the fact that Europe today has political elites of this sort pose any danger to the world at large?  

Sergey Lavrov: All people are living beings. Everyone has passions or hobbies of their own. I am not interfering with anyone’s privacy. I think that politicians should be judged by their political actions and their foreign policy decision-making, since foreign policy is my own métier.

I do not see any politicians on the international scene in Europe today, who would amount at least to something – with the exception of two or three individuals.