I Established My Bank In 1988.

Fortunes Are Made, And Disappear, Over The Lifetime Of A Single Generation. Today, A Person In Essence Takes His Wealth From Society Just For The Duration Of His Or Her Lifetime. The Next Generation Has To Create It Anew.

Putin Doesn't Conduct Elections In The Western Sense Of Elections. This Is More Accurately Probably Described As A Plebiscite, Where People Are Supposed To Express Their Support For Him. The Russian System Is Not Unique In This Respect, But It Is Rather Interesting. Here, In The West, The Impression That People Have Is That Putin Runs The Whole Country. This Is Not So, At All. To A Certain Extent, You Could Say That He Runs The Kremlin, And This Means That It's, In Some Situations, Hard To Tell Whether It's Him Running The Kremlin, Or The People Around Him Running Him.

I'm Not An Ordinary Prisoner.

Opposition Work Is Not Without Its Dangers. But If You've Chosen A Job Like That For Yourself, You Then Subsequently Shouldn't Spend Your Time Every Second Thinking, Oh My God, What Might Happen To Me? Oh My God, What Might Happen To Me? Your Colleagues Include Quite A Large Number Of War Correspondents. Their Job Is Not The Least Dangerous In The World, Either.

Every Politician Deep Inside Is Authoritarian. If The Person Doesn't Have Ambition, That's Not A Politician. Society Needs To Put Every Ambitious, Every Effective Politician Into Such A Position That It Helps - That This Person Helps Improve Society. That's Why I'm Always Talking About Need To Change The System Rather Than Should We Go With Navalny Or Gudkov Or Yavlinsky Or Khodorkovsky. We All Have Our Ambitions. We're All Ambitious People.