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.
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.
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.
I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.
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.
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 understanding.
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 no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.
The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.
During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
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.
Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.