Country Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russia is a very different place than what we in the West are familiar with. We cannot apply our own values and judgments to…

— Courtney Act

I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according to its…

— Daniel Fried

We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where we're living…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay the utmost…

— Vladimir Putin

If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a…

— Vladimir Putin

We had a simple choice: Either betray our values or keep our values and leave Russia to try to do something new.

— Pavel Durov

Russian people really don't like it when somebody does horrible things in Russia, and then can calmly go travel to another country and spend…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Well, like in Orwell books, whom I cherish very much as an author, in classical totalitarian regimes, you always have to make people hate…

— Ksenia Sobchak

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

— John Boyd Orr

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

— Anton Chekhov

We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are…

— Margaret Thatcher

Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership…

— John McCain