Originally appeared at KP; Appeared in Bulgarian at Memoriabg; Translated by Valentina Tzoneva exclusively for SouthFront

Komsomolskaia Pravda: Sergei Viktorovich, good day.

Sergey Lavrov: Hello.

Komsomolskaia Pravda: "Let's take the bull by the horns straight away. We received hundreds of frankly disturbing calls. The situation in our country is extremely difficult. They tried to crush us with sanctions. NATO is already touching our borders, the are creating a system for anti-missile defence. In the foreign media, there is an unprecedented demonization of our country.

They do not want to hear us. At the head of this process is the United States. President Obama said that the American nation is exceptional and that other countries must play by the rules written by the USA. To us, evidently, the role of vassals does not suit us. Are we eternally doomed to rivalry and confrontation by the consolidated West, led by the USA, which can turn into a confrontation at any moment and let's not talk about the more dramatic scenario?"

Alexander Shmelev writes directly: "The people are increasingly talking that there is going to be war. How serious are these concerns?"