I'm saying that more than a hundred weapons out of the supposed number of 250 are not under the control of the armed forces of Russia.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

You judge Moscow, and Moscow is not Russia. Moscow is a show city which is here to demonstrate the success of the reforms.

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.