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Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.


Mikhail Gorbachev

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MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have t...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘The Peop...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the othe...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone th...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV One can speak of sanctions only after the appearance of concrete facts proving that Iran is not enga...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN We will only be able to talk about sanctions after we have concrete facts confirming that Iran is no...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN At the present time, the concerns of the international community over the Iranian nuclear program ca...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Sanctions could only be discussed when evidence is provided that Iran is pursuing not only peaceful ...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Only the Council is authorized to make binding decisions on suspending cooperation with a state in a...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The adoption of a commitment on ending cooperation with this or that state in some sphere lies exclu...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The Iranian government has made no positive steps demanded in the February 4 resolution of the board...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The arms export control system we have developed is one of the strictest and most reliable in the wo...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Russia will strictly abide by the existing agreements and contracts with Western partners in the del...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Despite the intensive three-year work, the IAEA cannot yet make a conclusion about the absence of un...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a you...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has t...
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.
MIKHAIL DUDAN Russia's position is that status issues must be discussed at the third stage of talks within the Joi...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I can see one guy doing what we call an 'air flare' ... and I'll see 30 other individuals do the sam...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am fr...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN There is no love sincerer than the love of food
GEORGE MIKHAIL Sometimes, if I need assistance on the government level, I can appeal through official channels. For...
MIKHAIL PROKHOROV I made it to protect the motherland.
MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV Milosevic's advisers handed the Russian Embassy in the Netherlands a letter to the Russian Foreign M...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Only when you get closer do you see individual sources that make up the glow.
MIKHAIL REVNIVTSEV The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure
MIKHAIL BARYSHINIKOV Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые.
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV I shall sit down,' replied the cat, sitting down, 'but I shall enter an objection with regard to you...
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