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“Russia is now recognized as the center of the global 'mutiny' against global dictatorship of the US and EU. Its generally peaceful .. approach is in direct contrast to brutal and destabilizing methods used by the US and EU. The world is waking up to reality that there actually is, suddenly, some strong and determined resistance to Western imperialism. After decades of darkness, hope is emerging.”

World Reality Used Strong Darkness Approach Direct Wake Up Method Western Determined Decades Russia Resistance Peaceful Waking Contrast Dictatorship Brutal Imperialism Emerging Mutiny

Author:Andre Vltchek

“Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.”

Social Player Right Now Driven Significant Russia Social Network

Author:Yuri Milner

“Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.”

Weapons Mass Destruction Including Nuclear Russia Abandon Nuclear Weapons Mass Destruction Iranian Programmes Proliferation Enrichment Uranium Nuclear Proliferation

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia is probably one of the first countries to have been confronted with this problem of terrorism. It took some time before the international community realised the danger terrorism poses.”

Firsts Has Beens Country Problem Community Danger International Terrorism Russia Realised International Community

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.”

World Stills Moving Space Behinds Responsibility Leader Position Russia Moving Forward Exploration Keep Moving Keep Moving Forward Space Exploration Lag Great Responsibility

Author:Valentina Tereshkova

“Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.”

World Country Would Be Difficult Impossible Theory Russia Surround

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia is the biggest threat to the international order, not the Islamic State, not Iran, although I have problems with Iran, and not China. It's Russia.”

Problem Threat Islamic

Author:Wendy Sherman

“Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.”

World Stills Country Russia Homesick Countries Of The World

Author:John Updike

Source: Bech: A Book: A Novel

“Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.”

Men Men And Women Russia

Author:James Larkin

“Russia is usually readier to ascribe misfortune to conspiracies rather than to the more probable screwup.”

China Russia Asia Pacific Siberia Mongolia Baikal Amur Gobi

Author:Dominic Ziegler

Source: Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires

“Russia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it's difficult to say who is more important than the other.”

Made Important Difficult Achievement Terrorist Russia Iran Syria Hezbollah

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture.”

Country Political Culture Economic Majors Europe Russia Centre European Countries

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.”

Feels I Can Country Sometimes Complexes Russia

Author:Anton Yelchin

“Russia may soon get another chance to move closer to the West, to make a step - I do believe the first step toward democracy was made in the 1990s, and perhaps the next step can happen now. If this happens, the West needs to see it in time and support it in an intelligent way.”

Believe Moving Chance Support Democracy Intelligent

Author:Vladimir Voinovich

“Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.”

Energy Space Technology Modern Building Communication Russia Realising Transport Aircraft Full Potential

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.”

Needs States Strong Calling Russia Totalitarianism Provocative

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.”

Moving Difficult Goal Results Mistake Path Happened Russia Moving Forward Looking Back

Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky

“Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.”

War Ought Involved Russia Iran Proxy

Author:Michael T. Flynn

“Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.”

Stills Might Water Possibility Moon Access Russia Ice Entertaining Mars

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Russia recently passed a law - I think a terrible law - which says you have to store all of the data from Russian citizens on Russian soil just to prevent other countries from playing the same kind of legal games we're playing in this Microsoft case.”

Thinking Kind Country Law Games Cases Citizens Terrible Stores Russia Data Soil Other Countries Microsoft

Author:Edward Snowden

“Russia remains an adversary to the United States. We have some overlapping interests. It would be better if our relationship was better. But our relationship is not good right now because of Vladimir Putin. There are steps that I think that we should be taking that we should have taken under the Obama administration. For instance, providing defensive weaponry to Ukraine. I encourage the President and the administration to take a look at those steps.”

Thinking President Interest Taken Our Relationship Adversaries

Author:Tom Cotton

“Russia right now is searching for its soul. It's trying to figure out what it really is.”

Trying Soul Figures Right Now Russia

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient.”

Self Country Russia Sufficient Self Sufficient

Author:Sergei Ivanov

“Russia should be an effective and competitive state with a sustainable economy, developed social and political system flexible to changes domestically and globally.”

Should States Political Social Economy Russia Flexible Political Systems

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia should be competitive, be able to protect its own interests and influence the processes that are important to it.”

Should Important Able Process Interest Influence Protect Russia

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia should join the international coalition against Islamic State. It is absurd that we are intervening on the side of the Shiites in a war between Sunnis and Shiites even though almost all Russian Muslims are Sunnis. Putin is creating big problems for us in his attempt to help Bashar Assad.”

War Helping Problem Absurd Islamic

Author:Alexei Navalny

“Russia should recognize the freedom of countries, such as Ukraine, to choose their alliances.”

Should Country Russia Alliances Ukraine

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.”

Way Should Support Internet Russia Globalization

Author:Anatoly Chubais

“Russia spends enormous, senseless amounts of money on the army and the police. We have one of the top rankings in the world when it comes to the number of police officers - but when it comes to the number of murders, we are also right at the top.”

World Army Murder Police Police Officer

Author:Alexei Navalny

“Russia stops fighting, war ends - Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Israel ends invasion, war ends - Palestine ends resistance, Palestine ends.”

Palestinian Palestine Gaza Israeli Palestinian Conflict Palestinians Israeli Terrorism Gaza Strip Palestine Israeli Conflict

Author:Abhijit Naskar

Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Russia stripped me of my humanity.”

Humanity Russia

Author:Brittney Griner

Source: Coming Home

“Russia today is nothing but a propaganda arm.”

Today Arms Russia Propaganda

Author:Mark Shields

“Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you can have ten shots of vodka and be perfectly okay. If I had ten beers, I would be liquidated.”

People Ifs Kind Would Be Cities Ten Majors Shots Okay Russia Beer Introducing Vodka

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“Russia trolls, the U.S. tweets and vice versa!”

Troll Tweets

Author:Dipti Dhakul

Source: Quote: +/-

“Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.”

Ifs Should Today President Office Standards Democratic Russia Obligation Governance Putin Suspended Membership High Standards Good Governance

Author:Vito Fossella

“Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.”

Would Be Masters Europe Slave Russia Asia

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Russia went into Syria basically to support President Bashar al-Assad. And the Western allies have said Russia's really done very little against ISIS. For his part, Putin said Russia's open to stronger cooperation, and he supports Frances's effort to build a strong anti-terror coalition.”

Littles Said Done Strong President Effort Support Stronger Western Terror Russia France Als Allies Cooperation Syria Isis Putin Coalitions Assad Bashar Al Assad

Author:Corey Flintoff

“Russia will always remember the contribution [of King Fahd] in the development of Russian-Saudi relations, which in recent years were raised to a qualitatively higher level.”

Years Remember Levels Development Kings Higher Relation Raised Russia Contribution Saudis Higher Level

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia will become beacons of hope for the world.”

World Russia Beacons

Author:Edgar Cayce

“Russia will honour its international commitments. Our country is a reliable borrower, a reliable creditor and a reliable supplier. Sanctions come and go, but business ties, economic interests and the reputation of a state remain”

Country States Interest Economic Commitment International Russia Reputation Our Country Ties Honour Comes And Goes Sanctions Creditors Suppliers Borrowers

Author:Dmitry Medvedev

“Russia will never be really civilized, because it was civilized too soon. Peter has a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing. ... His first wish was to make Germans or Englishmen, when he ought to have been making Russians; and he prevented his subjects from ever becoming what they might have been by persuading them that they were what they are not.”

Russia Russians Peter The Great Muscovy Muscovites

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source: The Social Contract

“Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.”

Ifs States Values United United States Roots England Russia Copies Historic Second Chance

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia will not take part in any field operations on the territory of Syria or in other states; at least, we do not plan it for now. But we are thinking of how to intensify our work both with President al-Assad and our partners in other countries.”

Thinking Country States President Plans Fields Partners Russia Operations Als Territory Other Countries Syria Assad

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia's 62% of women and only 38% men, many of whom are heavy drinkers, so the battle for the female happiness is a rude one, only the slimmest, the leggiest, the blondest and the sexiest are the winners.”

Men Battle Female Heavy Russia Winner Rude Drinkers Sexiest Heavy Drinkers

Author:Alexander Vassiliev

“Russia's actions on the Crimean Peninsula were a serious violation of international law and of the principles upon which European peace is based. That is why we cannot let pass or ignore what took place.”

Action Serious International Law

Author:Frank-Walter Steinmeier

“Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.”

Problem Leader Crime Russia Organized Mafia Organized Crime Russian Mafia

Author:David Duke

“Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures.”

Leader Normal Democratic Russia Inclination Procedures Authoritarianism Armenia Azerbaijan

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region.”

Values Natural Security Resources Russia Regions Natural Resources Footprint Arctic

Author:Don Young

“Russia's main weaknesses are inflexibility and dependence on energy resources”

Energy Weakness Resources Russia Dependence

Author:Christopher A. Pissarides

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