Consideration Quote by Heinrich August Winkler

Internal reform in Russia would require a better relationship with the West.

— Daniel Fried

Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has embarked on a systematic challenge to the West. The goal is to weaken the bonds between Europe and the…

— Ivo Daalder

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 believe that we do not share as many values with Russia yet as we do with the United States. On the other hand,…

— Angela Merkel

Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

— Alexei Navalny

Russia wants stability along its Western borders, neighbors who treat their Russian minorities with respect and prosperous trading partners. NATO enlargement promotes such developments.

— Antony Blinken

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and…

— David Reuben

Furthermore, the situation in the North Caucasus is rather unstable. Mutual relations and the cooperation between [Vladimir] Putin and [Ramzan] Kadyrov, the high price…

— Garry Kasparov

The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.

— Vladimir Putin

Russia despises the West. And is doing what it can to weaken the West.

— Daniel Fried

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

— Eduard Shevardnadze

We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay the utmost…

— Vladimir Putin