It's a very erroneous strategy to try to push the Russian opposition to unite. First of all, the opposition is addressing different parts of Russian society that have differing points of view. And besides, a united opposition is a nice big target that the authorities have a much easier time fighting. And besides, resisting an authoritarian regime with an authoritarian opposition merely means that, in the event of victory, you're just doing yet another round of the same old, same old.

I am working in my office. I've got a boss who tells me what to do. He's got a boss who tells him what to do. And above him is another boss who probably is telling my boss in the same way - or my boss' boss in the same way what to do. In actuality, this is not the way things work. Management science says that that kind of a chain doesn't work more than three levels up.

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.