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.

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

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.

You're not always able to choose.

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

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.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.