Putin admitted that he was not ready to lead the country at Yeltsin’s proposal. “And not because I was scared of anything, but because the scale of the tasks was simply enormous...
Therefore, I said sincerely... And if I returned, I would repeat the same thing,” RIA Novosti quotes him. The President of Russia, in an interview with journalist Dmitry Kiselev for Rossiya 1 and RIANovosti, stated the need to meet the demands of society.