#russian

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#heritage #hungarian #music #now #playing

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

— Gerry Mulligan

#dynamic #especially #into #kind #orchestra

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here? ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#authorities #been #book #called #constitution

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

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

— Vladimir Putin

#democratic #early #final #made #people

I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#almost #as far as #been #closet #college

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#failure #proletariat #republic #russian #socialist

We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own. ↗

— Aly Khan

#aspirations #extent #georgia #large #large extent

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#feared #had #just #languages #manage

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#communicate #companion #concentrate #could #english