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 were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.

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

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

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

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

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

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

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

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 earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

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

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

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 should change the color of the walls.