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.

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.

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

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

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

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