11 Quotes by Vladislav Surkov

Unless the business community evolves into a national bourgeoisie, we will have no future.

I, for one, would not be afraid to invite more foreign professors. It is vital for us to modernize education so that our university graduates are every bit as good as Harvard or Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni.

Those who are not against us are for us.

As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.

Parties can't be artificially assembled at the Kremlin.

The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own.

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with our lives as in the past, but as good neighbors.

I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.