Conflict Quote by Svetlana Alexievich

People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.

— Fedor Emelianenko

I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according to its…

— Daniel Fried

Well, like in Orwell books, whom I cherish very much as an author, in classical totalitarian regimes, you always have to make people hate…

— Ksenia Sobchak

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We deal, unfortunately, every single day with leaders of countries who are responsible for actions we find either objectionable or abhorrent, whether it's Vladimir…

— Antony Blinken

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Russian people really don't like it when somebody does horrible things in Russia, and then can calmly go travel to another country and spend…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison the minds…

— Filipp Golikov

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

— Alexei Navalny

Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary people, are…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

Russia is a very different place than what we in the West are familiar with. We cannot apply our own values and judgments to…

— Courtney Act

Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera.

— Joseph Brodsky