This book is a collection conversations-interviews with one of the bright Russian economists and politicians who took an active part in building the new Russian state and economic system in the 1990s. Evgenii Iasin (b. 1934), former Minister of Economy (1994-1997), was one of the major contributors to the first government program of the transformation of the centrally planned Russian economy into a market one, a founder and professor of the best economic school Vysshaia Shkola Ekonomiki. Also available books by Evg. Iasin: Kak Podniat" Ekonomiku Rossii (1996); Rossiiskaia Ekonomika: Istoki i Panorama Rynochnykh Reform (2002); Nerynochnyi Sektor : Strukturnaia Reforma i Ekonomicheskii Rost (2004); Novaia Epokha - Starye Trevogi: Politicheskaia Ekonomiia (2004); Prizhivetsia li Demokratiia v Rossii (2005); Modernizatsiia i Obshchestvo (2007).