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.

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

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

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.

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.