I Established My Bank In 1988.

Russian People Really Don't Like It When Somebody Does Horrible Things In Russia, And Then Can Calmly Go Travel To Another Country And Spend Time There. And This Is What Needs To Be Done: The Russian People Need To Be Told This, Because In Today's World, Just Doing Something Is Not Enough. You've Got To Tell About It, Too. If You've Done Something And Haven't Told About It, It's As Good As If You Hadn't Done It At All.

People Expect Some Kinds Of Decisions From Putin That Will Help Them See Their Own Future. A Significant Part Of The People That He Relies On Are Quite Content With Him Telling Them That Nothing Is Going To Change. But That Part Of The Elite That Does Want To See Some Changes And Improvements Are Going To Expect Him To, In His Next Term, Bring Russia Back Into The Club Of The Great Powers.

The Structure Of The Company Is Constantly Changing. The Composition Of The Necessary Working Groups Is Constantly Changing. We Have Many Divisions That Are Based On The Project Principle, Which Means That They Are Put Together For Each Project.

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.

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.