Failure Quote by Sergey Karaganov

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made…

— Boris Yeltsin

The Politburo and Secretariat for many terms now have made some big mistakes, especially having not prevented and remedied corruption and the deterioration among…

— Nguyen Phu Trong

“The worst mistake in politics is the mistake made by Lenin – the mistake of destroying the institutions and procedures whereby mistakes can be…

— Roger Scruton

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

— George Bernard Shaw

In the 1990s, there was a lot of reform, and there was a lot of forward movement on a lot of fronts in Russia.…

— Masha Gessen

The Russians have a long history of interfering in elections - theirs and other people's.

— James Clapper

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not…

— Fareed Zakaria

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the…

— Anonymous

In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a grave social situation in Russia; our social protection system was destroyed; numerous problems emerged which…

— Vladimir Putin

After the fall of Communism, the biggest mistake Boris Yeltzin's regime made was not to disband the KGB altogether. Instead it changed its name…

— Gerard Batten

It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.

— Margarita Simonyan