Oleg Sharpaty

In Russia you’ve got to have good old boy connections to make some laws work.

People in all Asian countries smell strange (I guess it’s because of their food). I can remember my friend and I could not even approach a local cuisine restaurant because of the smell (laughing).

It’s much easier and more profitable to be a lawyer in the USA than anywhere else. The US law system is that complicated that no one can get into the thing apart from Americans themselves.

People often get irritated about the situation when somebody’s trying his best to reach a result, and here I come and maintain the thing better (laughing).

I have no idea of consciousness. I have got my own principles and values I have generated myself, setting really high price for them.

Judges in America estimate moral damage at millions of dollars, while they in Russia introduce a sum of 10 000 rubles. I guess our judges still consider that a Russian’s consciousness is invaluable and can not be treated as an object of trade.

I don’t believe in fate. I think God provides us with a number of ways to choose and this is up to us which one to take. Every person is to be in charge of his or her decisions.

If you are a mafia’s boss you can not but have your own lawyer, the rest stuff about everybody having a private lawyer in the West being merely a myth. People get a private lawyer only in case they constantly need one.

Unless a business owner knows that he can “settle” it all, the value of lawyers will be lower.

Classical music and painting are not that interesting nowadays as they were before. They are not that alive, being unable to answer most of the questions. They bring melancholy after all. It may be different with everybody but I am for one an advocate of contemporary art. It still can make your brain work and your heart feel.

New-York inspires. As I was taking morning walks with my iPod among all these sky-scrapers and hurrying people I was just wondering: how is one to live in the modern world of Big Apple with its ever-changing values, ideas of good and evil, vague relations, faces. But my major question was: “What am I to do to invest in it all?

I can spend my last money on a movie or on a book, that has somehow grabbed me. I know for sure that it will not be a pullover from Hermes latest collection, as the later is nothing more than a transient item. Well, I don’t mean that I wouldn’t spend on Aston Martin DB9... or let’s say on Shelby Mustang GT 500 of 1967, and… fuck! There are so damn many things I am ready to spend my last money on! (laughing).