Class Quote by Boris Nemtsov

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

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

— Anton Chekhov

I don't want to sound like I'm a special type of Russia hater. There are very few heads of state in Europe that would…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm by the…

— Marquis de Custine

The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to…

— David Graeber

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

“Every type of political power presupposes some particular form of human slavery, for the maintenance of which it is called into being. Just as…

— Rudolf Rocker

Why does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant.

— Vladimir Putin

There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group…

— Richard Hofstadter

Russia is an interesting place because they're extremely evil but they're not that good at implementing their evil.

— Bill Browder

Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia.

— Alexei Navalny

I'm not a Russian sympathizer, but after being in Russia for that long many years... like, look... they way they think isn't wrong, it's…

— Diana Taurasi