 I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. |
| There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible. |
| The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself. |
| 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. |
| You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia. |
| 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 the government. |
| Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced. |
| 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'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. |
| For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good. |
