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The mistake we make with many people - not just Russia - is that we believe we have the model, and there is a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

I was with a Russian family, and I couldn't believe that the grandparents in Russia, first of all I was shocked and delighted to…

— Philip Rosenthal

The Kremlin said Yeltsin was committed to the deal, however. President Yeltsin states clearly and unequivocally that he is an initiator of the unification…

— Sergey Yastrzhembsky

“The Yeltsin years considerably lowered the bar [of public expectations] for the country’s next leader: Putin’s specific policies and actions arguably matter far less…

— Helena Goscilo

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

— Vladimir Lenin

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

— Vladimir Lenin

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

— Arthur Rock

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.

— Erich Fromm

President Yeltsin's instincts were decent: he encouraged the marketplace, the press flourished, and everything started to open - even the KGB archives. Yeltsin reburied…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

No one can take away the experience of Yeltsin's freedoms, but Russian democracy will never follow Western models: other authoritarian 'controlled democracies' - Turkey,…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“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