I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.