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

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

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

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

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

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