Certain Quote by Garry Kasparov

Too many countries of the former Soviet bloc remain under the control of authoritarian leaders, including some, like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack…

— Ivan Krastev

Russia is a country that has supported, propped up the worst of anti-democratic regimes in the Middle East, that has practiced - mistreated its…

— Mark Shields

Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures.

— 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

We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have…

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

Ironically, from our perspective, Russia finds Iran a stabilizing force. This is because Iran provides a counterweight to all of the Sunni Muslim powers…

— Fiona Hill

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet…

— Samuel P. Huntington

I ask myself whether Russia is moving in the direction of democracy. I don't believe it is! Bit by bit, Russia is slipping back…

— Vladimir Sorokin

Russia may soon get another chance to move closer to the West, to make a step - I do believe the first step toward…

— Vladimir Voinovich