Leadership Quote by Helena Goscilo

“Vladimir Putin shot out of obscurity in 1999 by exploiting growing nostalgia for the USSR, fueled by the disappointment, uncertainty and crisis that brought…

— Gregory Feifer

“I want to step down this year, Vladimir Vladimirovich,” Yeltsin said he told him. “This year. That’s very important. The new century must begin…

— Steven Lee Myers

People expect some kinds of decisions from Putin that will help them see their own future. A significant part of the people that he…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I think Putin's popularity was genuine when he first came to power. He was seen as a welcome relief from the Yeltsin era.

— Masha Gessen

Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals of internationalism,…

— Andre Vltchek

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

The mistake we make with many people - not just Russia - is that we believe we have the model, and there is a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power. But Putin - I don't know about women, but it looks…

— Vladimir Voinovich

Russia is so feudal in its system of patronage and reward that it is virtually impossible for a leader to hand over power without…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

If Vladimir Putin is conscious and aware of his standing in the world economy, he has to understand this aggression in Crimea is not…

— Kelly Ayotte

“Putin has positioned himself as the leader of an authoritarian, xenophobic international movement that wants to expel immigrants, break up the European Union, weaken…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

— Mikhail Gorbachev