People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.