#russia

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy. ↗

— Mikhail Saakashvili

#enemy #georgia #need #russia

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#help #real #real reform #reform #russia

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#economic #eight #gone #pain #russia

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

#challenge #countries #drama #economic #emerged

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#aid program #being #days #debt #demands

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind. ↗

— Marat Safin

#behind #city #far #i #i think

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia. ↗

— Marat Safin

#had #i #lot #luck #russia

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with. ↗

— Marat Safin

#balls #break #buy #courts #impossible

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#between #brutal #decadence #difference #our

Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#allied #arms #been #bring #continuous