#russian

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#because #fifty #lived #long #often

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. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#any #collapse #communist #democracy #despite

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#central #chinese #completely #different #fluently

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years. ↗

— John Major

#afghan #ago #back #britain #come

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

— Herbie Mann

#heritage #hungarian #music #now #playing

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#early #elementary #elementary school #first #i

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

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#american #because #being #either #europe