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

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

You're not always able to choose.

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.

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.

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