MOSCOW. Oct 16 (Interfax) - Russian presidential chief-of-staff Sergei Ivanov has said that he cannot stand betrayals, is irked by grammatical mistakes and hates the word "elite".

Ivanov said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that he "had suffered a great deal because of a betrayal" when serving in intelligence.

Ivanov also said that he does not like "populism, slovenliness and some people's tendency to give elaborate and unclear answers to simple questions."

In addition to that, the Kremlin official, who is a degree in philology, said he hates it "when some commentators, even those working at central television stations, do not inflect numerals and make grammatical mistakes."

Ivanov also said he does not like the word "elite".

"It is a parasite word. Are there any lists of the elites? Has anyone seen them? (