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

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

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

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.