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

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

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

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.

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.

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

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.