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Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation. VLADIMIR PUTIN If somebody like me, an absolute down-the-line centrist on this issue--my position on Israel/Palesti...
ANATOL LIEVEN A military threat would have been very credible after Afghanistan. But after Iraq, no one thinks the...
ANATOL LIEVEN I am quite convinced that if (U.S. President Dwight) Eisenhower were to come back today he would hav...
ANATOL LIEVEN the last of the Eisenhower Republicans.
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The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Rus... AKHMAD KADYROV The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, C...
STEPHEN KINZER
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-gove... VLADIMIR PUTIN If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered - viscerally, emotionally remembered - what S...
ANNE APPLEBAUM The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not co...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a nat...
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attra... ZAHA HADID
Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own c... AKHMAD KADYROV
You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya. BORIS YELTSIN
I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal. VLADIMIR PUTIN
This is on me. [suggested for her tombstone] DOROTHY PARKER Parliamentary polls will kick-start the democratic process in Chechnya,
ALU ALKHANOV
Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996. AKHMAD KADYROV We will discuss questions connected with future regulation in Chechnya.
KNUT VOLLEBAEK
While looking up news from the North Caucasus on Twitter, I was linked to the sanguinely titled '... ANTHONY MARRA
The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terror... VLADIMIR PUTIN
Some say that because of our concerns about Chechnya, we should keep some distance from Moscow, TONY BLAIR Russia keeps Belarus within the family. This is a country that continues to look to Moscow for guida...
CHARLES KUPCHAN
We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya. BORIS YELTSIN
Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhoo... ANTHONY MARRA It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess...
ASLAN MASKHADOV if there is any worry in your mind, and if at that moment the words 'My Lord' comes to your lips, th...
SWAMI SHARNANAND JI
Visas represent one bureaucratic obstacle, so to say and, if removed, might increase the inflow of R... MILOS ZEMAN
I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unl... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. JEFFERSON DAVIS
I hope they (the solutions) are forthcoming and that the government of the Russian Federation will n... CHRIS PATTEN
Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster. VLADIMIR PUTIN
Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down. SOURCE UNKNOWN Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
AUBREY DE VERE
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.' EARL WEAVER
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone. OSCAR WILDE Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.
NIGEL BARKER The Russian embassy in Tehran gave to the Iranian side an official note saying that the previous Rus...
FOREIGN MINISTRY
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. EARTHA KITT
I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma. EARTHA KITT
Russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the Russian Federation. SERGEI LAVROV
You have no right to criticize Russia for Chechnya, ... We are obliged to put an end to the spread o... BORIS YELTSIN
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.' EARL WEAVER Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
AUBREY DE VERE
On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME. HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone. KEANU REEVES It is upon such stones that men attempt to permanently etch history so they will not exist in a vacu...
ROB BIGNELL, EDITOR Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the worl...
KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND
...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its ca... ROBERT GREENE The power lies within you. Lift yourself to elevate your innerself. Feel yourself".
RHOUVEYZZ We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds.
DENIS HACHEY
In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it... VLADIMIR PUTIN
On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!' ORSON WELLES
When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about ... ANTHONY MARRA
I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. MARKUS ZUSAK
There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a ... SENATOR JOHN KERRY
If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal. ORSON SCOTT CARD
When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything? NICOLE KRAUSS One of the most powerful and priceless thing a human can have is knowledge. You cannot buy or sell i...
ABDUS SALAM Words are the greatest gift to mankind by God to express emotions.
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Holy words, blessings of guru, visiting religious empire daily will not help you if you do not act u...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Songs are meant to heal our hearts and ease our pain.
ALFRED BALBO
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought com... FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
The unforeseen, that strange, haughty power which plays with man, had seized Gauvain and held him fa... VICTOR HUGO With you, I truly am fearless, Marcus. With you, I’m not even afraid to be weak.
MARINA SIMCOE Before I met you I WAS BLIND! I see things so differently since we have found each other. I see with...
LEVON PETER POE
What avail is honour or a sword against a pen? RUDYARD KIPLING freedom is the opportunity to take decisions. Not to take decisions are plenty of time become reason...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. ALDOUS HUXLEY
Honestly, I don't really care whether Jesus had ever walked upon planet earth or not. I'm only...
TOBA BETA
Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, ... TOM STOPPARD
They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the hu...
MICHAEL CRICHTON
There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experie... RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI
My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived ... ANTHONY MARRA It's largely in control of the Russian government,
BRUCE MISAMORE I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying a...
SCOTT ANDERSON It is a normal reaction of a person to such occurrences. A structure for providing psychological aid...
GENNADY ONISHCHENKO He calls me desperate (on my tombstone)
I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY
ELI COPPOLA
The Russian contribution to peace in Ukraine is not sufficient. [German Chancellor commenting on 201... ANGELA MERKEL Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
NATALIA MAKAROVA I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in ...
KEVIN A. FORD I am president of Russian Standard Company, biggest luxury vodka in Russia. My bank, Russian Standar...
ROUSTAM TARIKO
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern lite... VLADIMIR PUTIN Now came the time to reach some conclusions and see how these Russian Jews ... live in New York - th...
OLEG BUDNITSKII
The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique ci... VLADIMIR PUTIN We are negotiating with our partners about holding conferences on Russian-Jewish Paris and Russian-J...
OLEG BUDNITSKII Russia's proposal is to set up a joint Iranian-Russian company to enrich uranium in Russian territor...
JAVAD VAIDI
That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit? DAVID BYRNE You can see her sitting there on her father's tombstone; see his spirit brushing her hair.
ANGELA GREEN
No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Che... ANDERSON COOPER
I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that t... ALEXEI NAVALNY
The operation is far from being over. It's just one of its stages, ... Its final goal is the total d... VLADIMIR PUTIN
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya tha...
ASLAN MASKHADOV
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Wh... 