#russia

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#amongst #britain #china #country #desire

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks. ↗

— Emo Philips

#evil #i #incompetence #like #office

If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#credit #done #factory #get #had

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#ensuring #freedoms #human #human rights #nobody

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

#activities #eye #financing #keep #political

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#calling #i #i am #must #needs

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#becomes #copy #deep #england #ever

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#democratic #early #final #made #people

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#both #delivery #destruction #mass #means

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#heat #horrible #imaginable #instrument #martyrdom