Anatoly Chubais

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

— Anatoly Chubais

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

— Anatoly Chubais

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

— Anatoly Chubais

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

— Anatoly Chubais

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I…

— Anatoly Chubais

40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be…

— Anatoly Chubais

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

— Anatoly Chubais

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

— Anatoly Chubais

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from…

— Anatoly Chubais

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only…

— Anatoly Chubais

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

— Anatoly Chubais

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

— Anatoly Chubais

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

— Anatoly Chubais

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument…

— Anatoly Chubais

The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15…

— Anatoly Chubais

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of…

— Anatoly Chubais

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.

— Anatoly Chubais

These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member…

— Anatoly Chubais

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

— Anatoly Chubais

You're not always able to choose.

— Anatoly Chubais

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have…

— Anatoly Chubais

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

— Anatoly Chubais

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

— Anatoly Chubais

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could…

— Anatoly Chubais

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but…

— Anatoly Chubais