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

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

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

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

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

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

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.