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.

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 am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

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

I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.