At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people. (Quote by - John T. Flynn)

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it. (Quote by - Vladimir Zhirinovsky)

Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help. (Quote by - Herman Gorter)

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation. (Quote by - Anna Lindh)

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis. (Quote by - James Monroe)

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. (Quote by - Alexander Solzehnitsyn)

Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front. (Quote by - Hjalmar Schacht)

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death. (Quote by - Klaus Fuchs)

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death. (Quote by - Klaus Fuchs)

Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy. (Quote by - Kelly Miller)

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. (Quote by - Martin Lewis Perl)

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. (Quote by - Pete Seeger)

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. (Quote by - Zbigniew Brzezinski)

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. (Quote by - Richard Lugar)

Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished. (Quote by - Martin Van Buren)

As for myself, I was never against Russia. (Quote by - Eduard Shevardnadze)

And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that. (Quote by - William Kirby)

I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people. (Quote by - Viktor Yanukovych)

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy. (Quote by - Mikhail Saakashvili)

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues. (Quote by - Warren Christopher)

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary. (Quote by - Harry Houdini)

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. (Quote by - Agnes Smedley)

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia. (Quote by - Andrei Platonov)

A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability. (Quote by - Peter Hain)

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list. (Quote by - Yakov Smirnoff)