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.

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

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

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

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

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.