You know that in the Eurasian space, Russia is the central state, the most powerful state. But to become an empire, a… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
Russia is a very reliable and big market. I don't remember the figure but, for example, the German machine-building industry has been… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the situation in the North Caucasus is rather unstable. Mutual relations and the cooperation between [Vladimir] Putin and [Ramzan] Kadyrov, the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Ukraine is the closest country to us. We have always said that Ukraine is our sister country and it is true. It… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [ Master and Margarita ] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains -… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes.… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
In the longer run, I happen to think that Russia really has no choice but to become gradually more associated with the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Russia may very well be front and center again in 2020 as they were in 2016 regarding interference in America's presidential election.… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
“It is one of the supreme ironies of history that the blessed birth of an only son should have proved the mortal… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
Well, we have got to understand, for example, Russia is an orthodox Christian nation. So is Ukraine. That happened in 988 in… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has been stronger on the Ukraine than all the other countries put together, and those other countries right next door… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If our country's choice is to be a Great Power, Russia will be the great power not because of the nuclear potential,… — Zhores Alferov Copy Share Image
Particularly when we are a country where leaders turn over every few years and - I mean, in Russia, Vladimir Putin has… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
At the end of the Cold War, the prevailing view in Washington was that the U.S. was strong, and Russia was weak… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
I had traveled to Russia and met with Snowden, which was a pretty involved meeting that required encrypted communication and the like.… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
What Secretary Ash Carter is looking at is the constant pressure that Russia's putting on our European allies. The way that Russia… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We need to make it very clear - whether it's Russia, China, Iran or anybody else - the United States has much… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I think in the policies that have been followed since the president Donald Trump came into office, there really hasn't been any… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
We are a Russian group and we want to change the situation in Russia. We criticize our own government and it would… — Yekaterina Samutsevich Copy Share Image
Silencing the U.S. State Department, putting a friend of Vladimir Putin's in charge at the U.S. State Department, who stands by quietly… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“Russia’s biggest downside, for me at least, is its lack of color. Being in Russia is like breathing different oxygen, and I… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Conservatives - they say, 'Oh, Putin is a real leader, he's a true man, he stays firm on his position, he's not… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
For the Russians, frankly, it's time that we punched the Russians in the nose. They've gotten away with too much in this… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
So [Vladimir] Putin is a mess. He's committed all sort of murderous thuggery, and I am opposed to the way Putin conducts… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
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Vladimir Putin is a Russian czar. He's kind of a mix of Peter the Great and Stalin. He's got both in his… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
The mission is to demonstrate that Russia is not Putin, that we're ready for cooperation, and that there are a lot of… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
An opposition is necessary and desirable for the healthy development of any country. You can scarcely find anyone in opposition, except for… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
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“Never since the days of the Spartan Helots has history recorded such brutality as has been ever since the war and as… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
I remember performing in Russia when I was twenty, and I stayed at this hotel with 3000 rooms. There were sailors knocking… — Anne Akiko Meyers Copy Share Image
Putin has made life difficult for a lot of Russia's richest men; they don't like the sanctions; they don't like the war… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
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