Quotes from Anne Garrels

Russia needs to be creative and to go beyond its reliance on oil and gas revenue.

Too often, women are loath to demand their partners wear condoms for fear it will be a turnoff.

I am afraid of being infected," they tell him, "but I am even more afraid of being left alone.

President Putin has said courts may now mandate treatment for addicts

says addicts are rendered comatose for the first two weeks, pumped full of sedatives to keep them quiet while they undergo detox,

They are sick of their country's being seen as nothing more than a mafia-ridden kleptocracy—even though they are the first to complain about corruption.

lectures include a discussion of what has happened to Russian industry over the past twenty-plus years.

With roughly half the population of the United States, Russia now has about the same number of addicts.

I am sick of rigged elections. We just know who will win, and we can't change it. They get rid of anyone who

was struck by American ignorance about the rest of the world and Americans' crude idea that Russia

what she calls "Russian fatalism": "It comes from our history, from hundreds of years

We are always waiting for something bad. If something good happens, we are sure something bad will follow.