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

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

The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

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.

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.