Born Quote by Keith Gessen

I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve,…

— Francois Gautier

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited…

— David Remnick

I have a lot of friends in Ukraine.

— Dmitry Bivol

I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course of about…

— Masha Gessen

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

— Jackie Shroff

"Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He won a…

— Elizabeth Blair Lee

I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it.

— Vladimir Sorokin

My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.

— Bryce Dessner

Alan Rusbridger is, to many, among the most admired newspaper editors of our time.

— Michael Wolff

My grandfather was born in Kyiv and left in the late 20s and migrated to Belgium where he met my grandmother and then started…

— George Santos

I knew Szpilka from around 2004, after he had stopped being a football hooligan and I was over in Poland for business. We did…

— Dereck Chisora