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

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

You're not always able to choose.

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

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.