The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the proce….

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison..

You're not always able to choose..

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

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training ….

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced..

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology..

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good..

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….

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia..

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

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 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..

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

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 ….

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

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

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..