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

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 red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

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.

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.

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