Cease Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

— Marvin Kalb

Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know…

— Timothy Garton Ash

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

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

You know that in the Eurasian space, Russia is the central state, the most powerful state. But to become an empire, a member of…

— Alexander Lukashenko

Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy…

— Garry Kasparov

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic…

— Vladimir Putin

In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.

— Roman Abramovich

People in Russia have a right to their choice if they want to live in an empire, but they need to accept that people…

— Petro Poroshenko

I think in Russia's case, they want to have a Ukraine that is pro-Russian, Russia-friendly, a government they can work with. And yet, by…

— Kurt Volker

However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on…

— Vladimir Putin