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• I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

  Daniel Silva

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Russian, Soviet

• If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian gas and energy.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Russian, Central

• Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots – Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Russian, Foundations

• The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Russian, Composers

• Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

  Clement Attlee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Russian

• Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

  Garry Kasparov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Russian, Parliament

• I think that it’s a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it’s only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

  Garry Kasparov

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Russian

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it’s not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in People, Russian

• In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization.

  Edward Grey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mobilization, Russian, Government

• I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

  Elia Kazan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Russian, National Interest

• By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.

  Carroll Quigley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Winter, Russian

• So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

  Ralph Boston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Russian, Win

• Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Russian, Illustration, Authority

• The first song is called London. It’s about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

  Neil Tennant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Russian, Soldiers

• I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I’m not Russian.

  Nicholas Lea

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Russian, Notice

• Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children’s children, pure on their tongues, and free.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tongues, Russian, Pure

• Thanks to nanny, I’ve got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

  Modest Mussorgsky

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  Tags in Thanks, Nanny, Russian, Modest

• One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

  Tobias Wolff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Russian, Taught