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

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.

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.

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.

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

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.