Ends Quote by Vladimir Sorokin

Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken…

— Vladimir Sorokin

The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil…

— Vladimir Sorokin

I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how…

— Vladimir Sorokin

As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the…

— Vladimir Sorokin

I am always surprised when I watch the weather report on German television. First they show the map of Europe and then the camera…

— Vladimir Sorokin

I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it.

— Vladimir Sorokin

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a…

— Vladimir Sorokin

In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity…

— Vladimir Sorokin

Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy.…

— Vladimir Sorokin

The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.

— Vladimir Sorokin

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.

— Vladimir Sorokin

When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models…

— Vladimir Sorokin