Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

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 don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

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

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.