Bureaucrats Quote by Yulia Tymoshenko

People do forget there is still a lot of nostalgia in Russia for the Soviet Union.

— Clarissa Ward

Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in…

— Anatoly Chubais

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should…

— Vladimir Putin

Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and…

— Victor Pinchuk

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

— Vladimir Putin

“There are many Ukrainians that are okay with Russia taking control of the country, as it used to be a Russian state.”

— Steven Magee

We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we…

— Ivan Turgenev

“The Ukraine is still under Russian influence, even if they did give us independence. Ethnic Russians number 22% of our population. The facts remain…

— Nicholas Anderson

I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went…

— Viktor Yanukovych

We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are…

— Harry S. Truman

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

— Leon Trotsky