I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!

Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.