Businessman Quote by Garry Kasparov

Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating…

— Alexei Navalny

Quite frankly, I have to admit that with regard to the enormous financial assets and funds of Russian leaders in Western banks and on…

— Garry Kasparov

This is how the Russians have operated for years - they get the goods on people and then they can get you to do…

— Richard Painter

In the West, people demonize Putin. They do not understand that there is a collective Putin, consisting of some millions of people who do…

— Svetlana Alexievich

It shouldn't surprise any American to know that Russia uses its money and its intelligence services to spread disinformation, use subterfuge and deception and…

— Tom Cotton

“Russia was a kleptocracy, all the power in the hands of a corrupt few. The term thrown around these days was “elite capture”; the…

— Mark Greaney

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

— Al Franken

For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Russia has a long history of propaganda and trying to influence various nation's cultures and elections. It's happening. They seem to have stepped up…

— Dan Coats

What [Russians] want to do is undermine the Western liberal order.

— Daniel Fried

“Like most regimes not based on genuine popular support in an era of open access to information, Putin’s is inherently unstable and requires vigilant…

— Gregory Feifer

We are a Russian group and we want to change the situation in Russia. We criticize our own government and it would be strange…

— Yekaterina Samutsevich