What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

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.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

Very few parents give out healthy lunchboxes due to pressure from their children.

You can't judge a family's health by the form it's in at a given moment.

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.