Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punish...
For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.
It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.
Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.
I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.
The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.
No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.
Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must ...
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American peop...
The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.
