Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.
From Anatoly Chubais
During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.
For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.
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.
I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.
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.
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