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.

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

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 have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

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.

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