Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing.