You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

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

You're not always able to choose.

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.

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.