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  • For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S. -- Ivan Krastev
  • The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. -- Otto von Bismarck
  • It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics. -- Alexander Lebedev
  • The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media. -- Garry Kasparov
  • Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises. -- Ivan Krastev
  • A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia. -- Vladimir Putin
  • Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on. -- Vladimir Putin
  • First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy. -- Alexei Navalny
  • I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship. -- Yulia Tymoshenko
  • The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more. -- Akhmad Kadyrov
  • 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
  • The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia. -- Anatoly Chubais
  • For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside. -- Vladimir Putin
  • Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians. -- Chris Hadfield
  • I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death. -- Anthony Marra
  • Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity. -- Maajid Nawaz
  • Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia. -- Alexei Navalny
  • The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge. -- Jeffrey Sachs
  • It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya. -- Aslan Maskhadov
  • How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? -- William Butler Yeats
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