Clout Quote by Vladimir Sorokin

I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to become part…

— Bill Browder

If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority.…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Georgy Zhukov

For example, if you are a blogger who wrote something about a local official and you're going to prison for that, you're a political…

— Masha Gessen

We are deeply concerned about the situation in Russia with regards to human rights. There are several examples of this situation, such as the…

— Cecilia Malmstrom

Nothing has changed in Russia since Ivan the Terrible when it comes to the divide between the people and the state. The state demands…

— Vladimir Sorokin

I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.

— Alexei Mordashov

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has…

— Alexei Navalny

Everyone in Russia must awaken the citizen within himself.

— Vladimir Sorokin

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class…

— David Remnick

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