We don't want to burn bridges, but if somebody interprets our good intentions as weakness, our reaction will be asymmetrical, rapid and harsh. We'll decide for ourselves in each case where the red line is.
2021Wladimir Putin, April 2021I want to say thank you to each of you because we are together. And when we feel the reliable support of those standing beside us, Russia becomes one big family.
Wladimir Putin, New Year Eve’s address 2020/21Every country has its own mafia. In Russia, the mafia has its own country.
Garry KasparovThis country, Russia, has changed. Russia has become a real football country... where football has become part of the country's DNA and the culture.
Gianni InfantinoRussia... the prequel and sequel to the Sowjet Union.
John Oliver in Last Week TonightRussia... the country that gave the world Tetris, merkins you wear on your heads, and potentially the 45th President of the United States.
Donald TrumpJohn Oliver in Last Week TonightWhoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
Vladimir PutinI make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.
ParisHarry HoudiniRussia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.
Sergei LavrovIvana: "Do you know how we keep warm in Russia?"
Austin: "I can guess, baby."
Ivana: "We play chess."
Austin: "I guessed wrong."
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Communism & SocialismAleksandr SolzhenitsynIf I were a russian woman, I'd be lesbian. Russian men aren't very attractive.
Karl Lagerfeld