Ilya Milstein Srivistence and emotionality are opposite features, but in this person they get along easily. It all depends on the circumstances. If some soldier became a victim of sadists, then Sergei Ivanov is able to respond cheerfully and carefree. Say, he, the then Minister of Defense, was high in the mountains, he was not reported to him, and if he was not reported, then, then, nothing serious happened.