S. Popov: Frequently... well, I then... then I vowed that I would never again work with animals. You see, they just stopped feeding the animals. President Yeltsin decreed an end to the biological program. They stopped feeding all the animals, and everyone quit and went home. That was it. Well, that was just horrible, it was barbarous, really. We tried, you know, to collect a little bit of grass and things for the guinea pigs... It's just that... that the system... the system was cruel in that regard, and it seemed as if it would be... it would be just a huge relief to let all of that go, leave it, so to speak, behind, and just call an end to it.