Captains Quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski

“It’s like the fates are conspiring to keep me in Moscow. It’s not enough that Russia has winters brutal enough to decimate its enemies’…

— Anna Zaires

When McDonald's opened up in Moscow - I happened to be there when it opened and wandered in. And the Russians were queuing three…

— John Gimlette

As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it.

— Ivan Konev

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

“Brucan had been in Moscow earlier that year, not that we, the people, were aware of that, getting orders to organise the Ceauşescus' fall.”

— Florin Grancea

Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There are definitely many adventures on the road with Jessica 6. It sometimes feels like we're in a movie. I was recently kidnapped by…

— Nomi Ruiz

In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying,…

— Philip K. Dick

Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear,…

— Nina Berberova

I was interviewed by the Moscow Times and they said how's it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your…

— Dee Snider

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

— Anatoly Chubais

Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor…

— Peter Kenyon

I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I…

— Timothy Garton Ash

I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia…

— David E. Hoffman

The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned…

— Ivan Krastev