480 Quotes About Russia

It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia.

I love Russia because Russia gave me you.

I Want To Marry A Russian Solider And Have Twenty Children

A trained Soviet KGB operative then heading its successor outfit, the FSB, Putin had done the sitting Russian president the memorable favor of successfully derailing the criminal investigation into the Yeltsin clan. He did so by blackmailing Russia’s prosecutor general with a fake sex tape.

А единственная перспектива у продвинутого парня в этой стране – работать клоуном у пидарасов.

И самое удивительно — в России, стране злоупотреблений, все, от императора до дворника, жаждут пресечь их. Все о них говорят, все о них знают, их обсуждают и сетуют на них; остается лишь воздеть очи к небу и воскликнуть: "Отче наш на небеси! Избавь нас от злоупотреблений!". А злоупотребления шествуют с гордо поднятой головой.

No, I had no dollars. The man struggled spider-legged away through the rain, leaving me struck by the illogic of things

There's no easier pastime than bad-mouthing the church. Much like bad-mouthing Dostoyevsky: it's true, of course, all true, but it also misses the point. The church is a thing of wonder, Dostoyevsky is a thing of wonder, and the fact that we Russians are still here—that, too, is a thing of wonder.

In any case, on the wall of Juan Stein's house, there hung a rather ornately framed portrait of Chernyakhovsky, and that, I dare say, incommensurably more important than the busts and the cities named after him and the countless Chernyakhovsky Streets, full of potholes, scattered through the Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania and Russia. I don't know why I've kept the photo, Stein said to us.