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 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..

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution..

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who w….

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have ….

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 under….

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way..

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy..

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism..

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process..

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in t….

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load..

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia..

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the ear….

I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we ….

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 ….

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

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus..

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