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.

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

You're not always able to choose.

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

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.

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.