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.

It's A Very Erroneous Strategy To Try To Push The Russian Opposition To Unite. First Of All, The Opposition Is Addressing Different Parts Of Russian Society That Have Differing Points Of View. And Besides, A United Opposition Is A Nice Big Target That The Authorities Have A Much Easier Time Fighting. And Besides, Resisting An Authoritarian Regime With An Authoritarian Opposition Merely Means That, In The Event Of Victory, You're Just Doing Yet Another Round Of The Same Old, Same Old.

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 Established My Bank In 1988.

There Are People Who Are At Fault For One Or Another Problem. These People Are Very Avaricious And Self-serving. They're Not Doing It Just To Do It; They're Doing It For The Money. That Money, They Keep Here. When You Say, "we're Going To Find These People, These Guilty People, The Ones Who Are Not Only Breaking Laws But Are Also Hurting Their Own Fellow Country People," And You Say, "we're Going To Punish Them, Specifically, That's A Step In The Right Direction."