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Yeltsin says he feels guilty about mistakes he made as Russian president
Interfax

Moscow, 28 December: Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, believes that "Russia took the right path during his presidency," although he did make mistakes.

"Not every decision of mine was right. Such decisions had to be made for the first time, and they could not have been made without any mistakes," Yeltsin said in an interview with the programme Zerkalo (Mirror), which will be broadcast on Russia TV tomorrow evening.

Yeltsin confessed that he still has a sense of guilt for the mistakes he made.

At the same time, Yeltsin said that those were not strategic mistakes, "which would have influenced Russia's history". "There were no such mistakes. There were tactical mistakes in some less significant options, topics and issues. But on the whole Russia took the right path, and it became different," Yeltsin said.