#russia

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform. ↗

— Marc Almond

#freedom #long #new #platform #public

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not. ↗

— Marc Almond

#business #certain #done #etiquette #go

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

— Clement Attlee

#child #communism #great #illegitimate #karl

I read Russian literature a lot. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#literature #lot #read #russian

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#deal #extremely #game #horrifying #i

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #being #democracy #dictatorship #discipline

I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#astronauts #becoming #china #course #following

Most of the food imported to Russia came from China. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#china #food #imported #most #russia

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#closer #course #europe #integration #july

We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#considerable #continue #matter #obviously #path