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

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

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.

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.

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

40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.