SIMFEROPOL, Oct. 31 - Businessman Dmytro Firtash said that he is not going to get involved in politics, which is why he has no desire to join the Party of Regions and stand for Verkhovna Rada.

"I can say unequivocally that I am definitely not going to do politics, and there is no need even to talk about it. I will not be running for deputy, this is not my business. (. . .) Nor shall I pour myself into any parties of regions because I do not do politics," he told journalists in Simferopol on Sunday after meeting with acting head of the Crimean government Pavlo Burlakov.