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 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.

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

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

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

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

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.

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

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

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.