Argument Quote by Anton Chekhov

There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.

— Georgy Zhukov

Russia's a small country. It's really poor. It has nothing other than oil and weapons sales.

— Malcolm Nance

In Russia there is great interethnic hatred, class hatred - I mean hatred for wealthy people - that is stirred up by official propaganda.…

— Boris Nemtsov

One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going…

— Edward Snowden

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

— Leon Trotsky

“Russia's fundamental problem is not that it is a poor country struggling to modernize, but rather that it is a rich country struggling to…

— Fareed Zakaria

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them…

— Anonymous

“Russia used to be great, a nation of philosophers, brilliant thinkers, artists, and scientists. Not anymore. It hasn’t been great for a long time,…

— Penny Reid

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose…

— Adam Davidson

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not…

— Fareed Zakaria

I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on…

— Marquis de Custine

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn