Country Quote by Garry Kasparov

Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution.

— Rene Girard

After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves: the economic…

— Vladimir Putin

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

I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to become part…

— Bill Browder

In times of economic distress, it's only natural for people - and Americans have done this for many years - to look for a…

— Reza Aslan

Long after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian state and its security operatives still know who their long embedded human assets are,…

— Gerard Batten

On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.

— John McCain

“Corruption is usually classified as a humanitarian aid problem, to be handled by donor agencies, not mainstreamed into overall foreign and defense policy. And…

— Sarah Chayes

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class…

— David Remnick

Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the…

— Newt Gingrich

Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

— Alexei Navalny

I am inheriting a country which has been badly ravaged by years of misrule and ineptitude. There has been a wide disconnect between the…

— Mwai Kibaki