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.

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

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 Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

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.

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

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