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

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.

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

You're not always able to choose.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

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