It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.

It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.