“So stagnant was life in the Soviet Union then that even a sclerotic socialist system like East Germany’s seemed prosperous by comparison,” — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
“Bush pledged friendship and cooperation, but Putin also heard the voices of others in Washington, liberals and conservatives, who criticized Russia and seemed intent… — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
“I can distinctly hear the beatings of the wings of the angel of death,” it went, in improbably elegant English, which Litvinenko had barely… — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
“I want to step down this year, Vladimir Vladimirovich,” Yeltsin said he told him. “This year. That’s very important. The new century must begin… — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
“Putin coined a slogan for his vision of a new, rule-abiding Russia that was secure and prosperous. It embodied the internal contradictions of his… — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
“Authority in Russia had always been transferred through natural death, conspiracy or revolution,” — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
“When Kissinger flew into Petersburg for a visit, it was Vladimir Putin who met him at the airport and took him to the mayor’s… — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
“So stagnant was life in the Soviet Union then that even a sclerotic socialist system like East Germany’s seemed prosperous by comparison,” — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Putin portrayed himself as an avowed democrat. And yet even then, at the dawn of democracy in Russia, he warned that the imperative… — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
“The Soviet officers and soldiers deployed to Germany scavenged whatever they could acquire—blue jeans, pornography, and even weapons—to sell or barter on the black… — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
