Backward Quote by David Reuben

Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets…

— Michael Parenti

The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

— Michael Bloomberg

It is true that the U.S. could and should have been more generous as Russia made its painful transition to a market economy in…

— Richard N. Haass

Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

You know, Russia today is, what, 200 million people? In land mass, it's probably 50 times the size [of Japan], in natural resources a…

— Michael Bloomberg

“Bribery quickly became an integral part of the Russian way of doing business, and the expense of buying a government official was considered the…

— David Satter

It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at…

— Alisher Usmanov

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

— Garry Kasparov

With Russia, it is almost similar to China: people there have had it up to here with the West! The Russian people suffered immensely…

— Andre Vltchek

In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.

— Roger Lowenstein

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette…

— Marc Almond

Russia has a well-known reputation for corruption; unfortunately, I discovered that it was far worse than many had thought. While working in Moscow I…

— Bill Browder