480 Quotes About Russia

The formula Muscovy + Ukraine = Russia does not feature in the Russians’ own version of their history; but it is fundamental.

The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986.

У Виктора Януковича и Владимира Путина была длинная совместная история: еще в 2004 году Путин был уверен, что сделает Януковича президентом Украины. Близко знавший Януковича чиновник говорит, что еще тогда Янукович попросил у Путина российский паспорт. На случай, если придется экстренно убегать из страны. Что ответил Путин, неизвестно.

У каждого свои терриконы в голове.

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.

I looked and looked but I didn't see God.[Speaking about, in 1961, becoming the first human to enter space.]

We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.