I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.
As for myself, I was never against Russia.
Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...
I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.