We could create a precedent, the civilised and voluntary transfer of power from one Russian president to another, newly elected. But I took a different decision.

• 我们本可以开创一个先例，即以文明、自愿的方式把俄罗斯的权力从一位总统移交到新当选的另一位总统手中，而我却作出了不同的决定。