My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

Putin regards me as the most dangerous person, and when they were releasing me from jail, the only condition was that I leave the country. And when they did push me out of the country, to make sure that I wouldn't come back, they opened up a criminal case against me - a new one.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.