Block Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.

— Georgy Zhukov

Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

— Oscar Wilde

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of…

— Newt Gingrich

“Everything is PR” has become the favorite phrase of the new Russia; my Moscow peers are filled with a sense that they are both…

— Peter Pomerantsev

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

— Edward Carpenter

When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

— Natalia Vodianova

“Wherever you look, everything is in a row: a seven-story pile abutting a three-windowed log hut hard by a fantastical L-shaped mansion; ten paces…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that…

— Natalia Vodianova

The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to…

— David Graeber

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 wanted to show something that Americans don't usually think about when they think about Russia, which is the extreme stratification of Soviet society.

— Masha Gessen

Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'

— Lilia Shevtsova