There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

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

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.

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

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.