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

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

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

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

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.

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

The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing.