Acceleration Quote by Anatoliy Golitsyn

[Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationalists on the…

— Daniel Fried

Russia despises the West. And is doing what it can to weaken the West.

— Daniel Fried

Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has embarked on a systematic challenge to the West. The goal is to weaken the bonds between Europe and the…

— Ivo Daalder

I think that right now the West understands Russia better than before and feels a much greater wariness toward it. I think that, if…

— Vladimir Voinovich

One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.

— Andrey Illarionov

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

— Alexander Haig

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

— Garry Kasparov

Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to…

— Francois Mitterrand

Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not stand…

— John Mearsheimer

The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army,…

— Anonymous