Country Quote by Roman Abramovich

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy…

— Garry Kasparov

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic…

— Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on…

— Vladimir Putin

We think about democracy, and that's the word that Americans love to use, 'democracy,' and that's how we characterize our system. But if democracy…

— Timothy D. Snyder

Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system -…

— Vladimir Putin

I would like to see Russia develop as democratically as possible. But when we judge Russia we must also consider where the country is…

— Angela Merkel

Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the…

— Vladimir Putin

There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.

— Margarita Simonyan

Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same.…

— Tom Robbins

Russia is a country that has supported, propped up the worst of anti-democratic regimes in the Middle East, that has practiced - mistreated its…

— Mark Shields

“We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I ask myself whether Russia is moving in the direction of democracy. I don't believe it is! Bit by bit, Russia is slipping back…

— Vladimir Sorokin