I am always surprised when I watch the weather report on German television. First they show the map of Europe and then the camera moves to the right. Then comes Kiev, then Moscow and then everything stops. This seems to… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
I am always surprised when I watch the weather report on German television. First they show the map of Europe and then the camera… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy.… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
The citizen lives in each of us. In the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, I was constantly trying to suppress the responsible… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share
