During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

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