Quotes About Russia

China, Russia, Iran and other adversaries each pose a threat to our elections, and the Trump administration seeks to counter all of those threats in a serious, professional and apolitical fashion.

The Trans-Siberian Express is like a cruise across an oceanic landscape. I've done it three times.

I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

Putin is a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible election.

Trump has repeatedly insisted that he is innocent of colluding with Russia and had no idea about his campaign staff's Russia contacts. So he should be glad to know that the FBI appears to have been trying to thwart a hostile country's efforts to infiltrate his campaign.

New ties between Russia and Japan would mark not only a breakthrough in their relations but also a significant shift in Northeast Asia's political dynamic.

Germany has traditionally played a very constructive role regarding E.U. ties with Russia and the West as a whole with Russia.

I believe that Trump is a danger. I believe that he wants to tighten and build up his relationship to Russia for whatever reasons.

The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation with Russia.

the situation between Ukraine and Russia is ripe for the outbreak of security competition between them. Great powers that share a long and unprotected common border, like that between Russia and Ukraine, often lapse into competition driven by security fears. Russia and Ukraine might overcome this dynamic and learn to live together in harmony, but it would be unusual if they do."16

Turgenev complained in a letter that Spring in Europe lacked the explosiveness of that season in Russia.

Russian's claim the banya as their first doctor, vodka being the second and raw garlic the third.

it was] perceived that it was easier to rise upwards east of the Urals. A man who left Russia as a common soldier became a sergeant in Tobolsk, a captain in Yakutsk and a colonel in Kamchatka.

When I asked [her maternal grandmother that lived to the age of 103] what she remembered about the First and Second World Wars, she told me the following: "Germans are very correct. The Italians always look for a piano and want to make a party. But when the Russians come, everyone runs away because they rape all the women, young and old alike.

At the time of their deaths, three out of five Russian men, I am told, are found to have a blood-alcohol level exceeding what one needs to qualify for a DWI.

It was the Russia of my dreams and adolescent fantasies that I was looking for: dark, snowy, cold, a moody and romantic place of beauty, sadness, melancholy, and absurdity.

Lydia Ruslanova

Napoleon had said on the eve of his invasion in 1812: 'Avant deux mois, la Russie me demandera la paix.

The hour of courage has struck on the clock …', ran Anna Akhmatova's poem at that moment when the very existence of Russia appeared to be in mortal danger.

But Honeybun,' I would counter, 'you can't have real love without respect.' 'That is not true in Russia. You either love or you respect. You can not do both.' 'How do you mean?' 'With love you have jealousy, possessiveness, and many other emotions and passions which make respect impossible. We know that in Russia, therefore we accept it.

Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti – the KGB – trains a thousand agents at a time.

the hotline between the presidents of Russia and America is secured via a onetime pad cipher.

Any person advocating Communism, Socialism, or Anarchism, advocating refusal to enlist in case of war, or advocating alliance with Russia in any war whatsoever, shall be subject to trial for high treason, with a minimum penalty of twenty years at hard labor in prison, and a maximum of death on the gallows, or other form of execution which the judges may find convenient.