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"You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia."
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"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."

"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."

"Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology."

"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."

"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."

"I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council."

"I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures."
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