We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.

will be able to unite those who will renew the great Russia in the 21st century.

By offering the educated a semblance of freedom he made the denial of real freedom even more painful and humiliating. The intelligentsia sought to avenge their betrayed hopes; the Tsar strove to tame their restive...

This is an internal problem of Russia,

A confidential report delivered in June 1965 by Abel Aganbegyan, director of the Novobirsk Institute of Economics, highlighted the difficulties. Aganbegyan noted that the growth rate of the Soviet economy was beginning to decline, just...

I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have not lost the gift of being able to drink of its inner strength....

There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead...

Cold stars reflected in the waterAbyss beckons us his dark distance.Our world, only one of hundreds,In which we can not see the sun.In this world, I am uneasy,I want to touch another planets.Because there is...

The talks with Russia remain valid.

Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? ‘Make way, we are coming! Give us every right and don’t you dare breathe a word before us. Pay us every sort of...

In this way, the Church was a true reflection of the whole of Russian society. The KGB and the Russian people had penetrated each other to such an extent that they could not be separated....

Everyone I have spoken with about working with the Russians in space exploration believes that the United States has learned a great deal from Russia and that Russia has learned a great deal from the...

They’re professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don’t...

The problem of skinheads is common to both Russia and other countries, and we should fight it together.

I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy.

On Kosovo, the Russians have played a constructive role. We expect that to continue. … We also expect that Russia will continue on the path of economic reform and move forward with the efforts that...

Sveta had much less to say, but she sat with Lev and held his hand, and when I asked her what had made her fall in love with him, she replied, ‘I knew he was...

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

Foreign investors should feel confident there will be no collapse of financial markets in Russia,

The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.

I folded my map in half and used it to make a sandwich. Then I dipped it in coffee and ate all of Europe and half of Russia.

This is all promulgated by overseas markets. We started with the festering Asian situation, Russia then spilled over into Latin America, and Wall Street has trouble dealing with all these overseas situations.

Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own.

We identified Russia and the Middle East as very important for development.

I don’t feel any connection to Russia.

The talks with Russia remain valid. The final date of this visit will be Feb. 20.

It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian ‘become an Atheist,’ but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as...

The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses … Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit...

We essentially had to build a docking mechanism between the two capsules. We didn’t have to share a lot of data, and we did that at the height of the Cold War, which was pretty...

Our counterparts from NASA will visit us late August or early September, and we will then discuss what services Russia can provide to deliver cargoes and crews, and on what terms.

Russia supports boosting OSCE economic efforts and the full-scale and balanced implementation of the Economic Strategy.

Russia is Germany’s most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so,

Russia is looking after its economic interests. They have a lot at stake, … China is so ideologically opposed that the most you can get out of them is an abstention.

There is a direct relationship with viruses found in Russia, Mongolia and China, … highly aggressive.

By 1998, the Americans got accustomed to the fact that people in Russia must listen to them and they don’t have to listen to anyone here,

In Russia, we are shaken by the NATO bombardment of the embassy of the Chinese People’s Republic in Belgrade. This is an open outrage, and there is not and cannot be any justification for it,

Besides Vietnam , we also have offices in the US , Australia , India , Russia , and Romania .

Russia’s position is very tight.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Russia has close relations with China, so it’s not surprising that it criticized Taiwan. However, Russia’s reaction also revealed that it was unaware that China opposed the council and guidelines when they were first formulated,...

Darwin’s theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly established old traditions which it had first to overcome, in Russia its appearance coincided with the awakening of our...

From above you could see the chaos of entangled plots on the other side of the road, and a couple of tough tethered goats, and the glint of a frozen pond somewhere in the trees....

The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that our security would be imperiled if, the very next day, Obama...

Some of these systems were developed jointly with us, but it’s all designed and built in Russia by Russians.

The governments of both countries do not wish for this incident to bring any harm to Sino-Russia relations,

How much?” We have to tell the people why this atom-smasher is going to benefit their lives.

We informed our partners about the development of the gas industry in Russia.

Forgive me, Excellency. The fact you do not know is that Japan also is a nuclear power. I am convinced that Russia will not risk nuclear war to retain a wasteland that has never earned...

The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and...

Russia has not come to the conference empty-handed. The Russian delegation plans to announce that Russia will allocate tens of millions of dollars over the period until 2009.