All Quotes

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Russia and the U.S. bear a special responsibility in world affairs. We have much to offer the rest of the world. Our common history testifies to this, and modern challenges demand that we work together.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

Russia and the U.S. have unique experience in ensuring the safety and security of nuclear material.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
‐‐ Marc Almond

Russia can become a strategic partner in a fight against international terrorism.
‐‐ Milos Zeman

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.
‐‐ Isaac Mayer Wise

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.
‐‐ Kathleen Troia McFarland

Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
‐‐ James A. Michener

Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
‐‐ Ian Frazier

Russia has been entirely proportionate in its military response to Georgia's attack on Russian citizens and peacekeepers.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

Russia has done more than any other country to support the independent Ukrainian state, including for many years subsidising its economy through low energy prices.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal... to suit its interests and international legal obligations.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.
‐‐ Jeffrey Sachs

Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.
‐‐ Jeremy Corbyn

Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.
‐‐ Arkady Volozh

Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Russia is a part of the West and at the same time is a part of the Asia-Pacific.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

Russia is a state within a state. To understand the population of Russia, you need to know the areas of the country; you need an understanding of the people and their interests.
‐‐ Anatoly Karpov

Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
‐‐ Maelle Gavet

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.
‐‐ Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.
‐‐ Marine Le Pen

Russia is classic fascism.
‐‐ Daniel Silva

Russia is doing all it can to promote early stabilisation in Ukraine.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

Russia is emerging as an essential diplomatic and security partner for the U.S. in Syria, despite the Obama administration's opposition to Moscow's support for President Bashar al-Assad.
‐‐ David Ignatius

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.
‐‐ Helmut Kohl

Russia is not a homogenous country; it's a very fragmented country.
‐‐ Alexei Mordashov

Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
‐‐ 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.
‐‐ 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.
‐‐ Valentina Tereshkova

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.
‐‐ James Larkin

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Russia is very big and very varied. People are different in different regions.
‐‐ Sergey Galitsky

Russia isn't likely to have any more military success in Syria and Iraq than has the United States.
‐‐ David Ignatius

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.
‐‐ Anton Yelchin

Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.
‐‐ Aly Khan

Russia made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism. That's clear to every honest observer. So, therefore, in a certain manner, it is indeed part of the country's national psyche.
‐‐ Dmitry Medvedev

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
‐‐ Nikolai Gogol

Russia's actions in Syria are not the only reasons to distrust Mr. Putin. Moscow has opposed attempts by the U.N. in November 2011 to increase sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear program.
‐‐ John Barrasso

Russia's oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.
‐‐ Roger Altman

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.
‐‐ Anatoly Chubais