I Established My Bank In 1988.

Large Companies Cannot Finance Political Parties As Their Shareholders And Employees Have Different Political Views.

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.

I Have To Travel A Lot, But Relaxation To Me Is When I Am At Home.

I Established My Bank In 1988.

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.