This medal is like gold to me.
ALEXEI TIKHONOV Calgary was the site of my first and last competition.
ALEXEI TIKHONOV Maria was scared of it at first. At the beginning of the season it was, like, 'Oh no, I don't want t...
ALEXEI TIKHONOV In terms of power, speed and technique it was all there. We have trained to show our hearts and soul...
ALEXEI TIKHONOV We skated with our soul, with our heart and you can see the audience was with us.
ALEXEI TIKHONOV It was very difficult for us to skate after the long trip from Canada to China.
ALEXEI TIKHONOV We were very happy with our skating.
ALEXEI TIKHONOV You can't do comedy with a beard.
ALEXEI SAYLE I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.
ALEXEI NAVALNY I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opp...
ALEXEI NAVALNY People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women th...
ALEXEI SAYLE Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been wal...
ALEXEI SAYLE Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in...
ALEXEI NAVALNY Consistency for me is everything.
ALEXEI NAVALNY I have to think long-term first for the Islanders and myself. That is what is fair.
ALEXEI ZHITNIK It was a great time here. We had great runs in the playoffs. We were underdogs all the time, but we ...
ALEXEI ZHITNIK I've played in the Eastern Conference for a decade and know what it takes to win. The Islanders have...
ALEXEI ZHITNIK I'm going to be fine. It wasn't like yesterday.
ALEXEI ZHITNIK I don't want to say what Buffalo offered, but I took the best deal. . . . I got four years, the deal...
ALEXEI ZHITNIK I definitely was thinking,
ALEXEI ZHITNIK I tried to lift my skates. Sometimes it bounces your way and sometimes it bounces against you. Hopef...
ALEXEI ZHITNIK It seemed like an exciting game,
ALEXEI YASHIN It takes time, but we created so many chances. Hopefully it will come. It seems like, not only betwe...
ALEXEI YASHIN [The Islanders appointed Yashin team captain Tuesday, in time for the team's pre-season game later t...
ALEXEI YASHIN There are so many players on our team who are great leaders and would have been excellent choices. S...
ALEXEI YASHIN This is a very big honor for me,
ALEXEI YASHIN It's always been my team since I came here.
ALEXEI YASHIN The last seven to eight minutes we played in their zone.
ALEXEI YASHIN It's frustrating when you have a lead and you played so well in the first period. We just couldn't k...
ALEXEI YASHIN It seems like the biggest goal for us is to be consistent. If I play all 60 minutes at the same leve...
ALEXEI YASHIN We played as a team and it's with great pride that we beat a team like Canada.
ALEXEI YASHIN I wanted to return home. Dynamo had offered me the best possible conditions and I was happy to join ...
ALEXEI SMERTIN I've received an offer from a Russian club.
ALEXEI SMERTIN I've received an offer from a Russian club and now my agent is considering that. But I can't say any...
ALEXEI SMERTIN He even played for them. I was interested in him from when I was young so it was very exciting. Char...
ALEXEI SMERTIN England are not playing properly. So why not call Danny Murphy? He is playing well and is one of the...
ALEXEI SMERTIN [When at Portsmouth two seasons ago, on a similar loan deal to the one which brought him to Charlton...
ALEXEI SMERTIN I can't judge myself,
ALEXEI SMERTIN What is most important is that we don't waste time on the field. We are always moving, getting forwa...
ALEXEI SMERTIN I can't judge myself. I always think it is better to stay modest in these matters. Look, I'm really ...
ALEXEI SMERTIN I loved Sherlock Holmes when I was younger. So you can imagine how excited I was to discover that Co...
ALEXEI SMERTIN People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than m...
ALEXEI SAYLE Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you k...
ALEXEI SAYLE Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'Pres...
ALEXEI SAYLE If we look at the nation that President Bush leads, it also behaves in many ways like an addict. The...
ALEXEI SAYLE Stand-up has got harder. Now it's all pissed-up hen parties who don't give a monkey's about your rou...
ALEXEI SAYLE If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instanc...
ALEXEI SAYLE It is no good for somebody in the entertainment business like myself to back romantic, telegenic cau...
ALEXEI SAYLE Anyone who saw the undercover work of the BUAV would be appalled and sickened to see the procedures ...
ALEXEI SAYLE To know that these intelligent, sensitive animals are mocked, poisoned and even intentionally brain ...
ALEXEI SAYLE Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been wal...
ALEXEI SAYLE It looks pretty grim but we're just trying to play desperate. We just have to try and win every game...
ALEXEI PONIKAROVSKY It's not the world championship or Olympics. It's not the final. But still, it was a very important ...
ALEXEI PONIKAROVSKY We're battling for a playoff spot and every game is important for us. The (next) three games, there'...
ALEXEI PONIKAROVSKY That was huge for us ... we needed the points and Eddie was there for us.
ALEXEI PONIKAROVSKY It's a great win to end the (calendar) year for our fans. I should have had another goal later in th...
ALEXEI PONIKAROVSKY Maybe Russia doesn't have such rich stores of reserve like before, but hope does not die. Russian sk...
ALEXEI MISHIN Life is changing, a person is changing.
ALEXEI MISHIN We asked to live separately because the pair skaters will finish their competition on Monday and it ...
ALEXEI MISHIN In Salt Lake City, we stayed with them on one floor. It was very distracting.
ALEXEI MISHIN There is nothing new about, that we do that quite often.
ALEXEI MISHIN Russian women are not very good for figure skating. They are good for building rail tracks in Siberi...
ALEXEI MISHIN If Ukraine does not sign the contract for gas supplies in the hours remaining until the New Year, Ru...
ALEXEI MILLER If in the remaining hours, Ukraine does not sign a contract for gas, then at 10 a.m. Moscow time (07...
ALEXEI MILLER If in the remaining hours, Ukraine does not sign a contract for gas, then at 10 a.m. Moscow time on ...
ALEXEI MILLER The agreements will provide additional security guarantees to gas exports to Europe and serve as a s...
ALEXEI MILLER We are satisfied with the results of the negotiations ... We have reached agreement on a mutually pr...
ALEXEI MILLER This agreement will ensure stable supplies to Europe.
ALEXEI MILLER We are fully satisfied with the agreement.
ALEXEI MILLER Traditionally Central Asian gas is cheaper, so there won't be any shock for the Ukrainian economy.
ALEXEI MILLER The actions will be precise and resolute.
ALEXEI MILLER The current gas price for Ukraine is 230 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic meters. Bearing in mind the sh...
ALEXEI MILLER These statements amount to a take-over of the Middle East peace initiative.
ALEXEI MALASHENKO This visit is not just for backslapping. This is to confirm again that Russia is taking the course o...
ALEXEI MALASHENKO [This attack] wasn't connected with Chechnya, with Chechen separatism, with independence. It was to ...
ALEXEI MALASHENKO The Chechen conflict is spilling into neighboring republics, escalating the process of destabilizati...
ALEXEI MALASHENKO We have seen there has been a certain radicalization of the movement.
ALEXEI MALASHENKO Until the local players, who were taken aback, sharpen their daggers and collect cash, the Kremlin h...
ALEXEI MAKARKIN It will help us avoid all the complications with those countries and deal directly with the Germans.
ALEXEI MAKARKIN Bringing in a successor when a popular social policy is in place would be considerably easier.
ALEXEI MAKARKIN If the Kremlin does not jump of top of this trend, someone else will.
ALEXEI MAKARKIN When I work on club interiors my biggest aim is to help the venue to become a perfect money-generati...
ALEXEI HAAS A club is a game. We don't put people inside strict borders, we don't promise anything and we don't ...
ALEXEI HAAS We don't want to define our policies in relation to the club's music, dress code or face control. As...
ALEXEI HAAS So now we are in a situation, when people don't respect the place they visit and they tend to move o...
ALEXEI HAAS This fact could lead to the real bankruptcy of Russian poultry farms.
ALEXEI GORDEYEV This is the worst winter in 28 years.
ALEXEI GORDEYEV It is necessary to coordinate our actions, as both Russia and Norway are interested in combating poa...
ALEXEI GORDEYEV We've now entered the homestretch and can finally agree to cooperate in such a way as to ensure prod...
ALEXEI GORDEYEV We estimate that about 30% of the winter crops are dead as of today.
ALEXEI GORDEYEV The situation on the poultry market is alarming.
ALEXEI GORDEYEV Russia will search for ways of settlement without sanctions and the use of force ... but Iran must s...
ALEXEI ARBATOV Iran is striving to take a dominant position in the region, and its nuclear program is the most suit...
ALEXEI ARBATOV Russia wants to play mediator between the West and Islamic world. But that won't bring any good beca...
ALEXEI ARBATOV Russia wants to win global clout by acting as a mediator amid growing tensions between the West and ...
ALEXEI ARBATOV Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government p...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instanc...
ALEXEI SAYLE But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the eliminat...
ALEXEI SAYLE I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks ...
ALEXEI NAVALNY I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks ...
ALEXEI NAVALNY The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demons...
ALEXEI NAVALNY Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'.....
ALEXEI SAYLE Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of it...
ALEXEI SAYLE That depends ... am I in the final year of my contract?
ALEXEI YASHIN Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
ALEXEI SAYLE It showed that our country was capable of making a scientific discovery of global importance. We for...
ALEXEI LEONOV We are increasing gas supplies to the Russian-Ukrainian border on practically a daily basis, but the...
ALEXEI MILLER Initially, we are allocating $6 million from our budget to the joint venture.
ALEXEI MILLER I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical real...
ALEXEI SAYLE I am who I am,
ALEXEI YASHIN [New York Islanders: The Islanders named enigmatic center Alexei Yashin their 10th captain. When he ...
ALEXEI YASHIN Realistically, it must be a combination of equity and cash.
ALEXEI REZNIKOVICH He is considered to be not corrupted, so he has a decent image ... which is a rarity in Russian poli...
ALEXEI PUSHKOV Prices will keep pace with inflation, which is expected to reach 10-10.5%, given no cataclysms.
ALEXEI NEBOLSIN The cold snap [which seized the country last week] sent prices for diesel fuel rocketing, as there w...
ALEXEI NEBOLSIN In the medium term, prices will remain the same in February, but may grow in March.
ALEXEI NEBOLSIN It's extremely important to move in a direction that will allow us to take advantage of WTO membersh...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV Consolidation is an important step in the development of our company as a national steel and raw min...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV Lowering inflation to 3-4% annually should be a priority, a major instrument of economic policy, and...
ALEXEI KUDRIN We should know how much we have in a non-oil budget.
ALEXEI KUDRIN We are proposing to define the budget deficit excluding oil revenues, instead of immediately cutting...
ALEXEI KUDRIN We informed our partners about the development of the gas industry in Russia.
ALEXEI KUDRIN The pilot project to use the funds [allocated for the purpose] will be possibly determined.
ALEXEI KUDRIN We are working in this direction.
ALEXEI KUDRIN This is not just a question of supplies of oil or gas, though they of course play a serious role.
ALEXEI KUDRIN It is the first time in my experience that major changes that were rejected during preliminary consi...
ALEXEI KUDRIN That means that the Russian prime minister took personal responsibility [for the decision].
ALEXEI KUDRIN We will have to raise VAT again in a couple of years.
ALEXEI KUDRIN Russia's obligations to its US partners will end in the spring. A Soyuz rocket will then take two Ru...
ALEXEI KRASNOV We hope that American shuttles will resume regular flights and we are offering our NASA colleagues t...
ALEXEI KRASNOV Our counterparts from NASA will visit us late August or early September, and we will then discuss wh...
ALEXEI KRASNOV They were missing some good players. I don't know why.
ALEXEI KOVALEV This is really big. I can't imagine what's going on in Russia right now.
ALEXEI KOVALEV Skill and power don't mean anything. You need heart and you need everyone on the team believing that...
ALEXEI KOVALEV This tournament is all about mistakes. If you see every game, a team makes a mistake and the other t...
ALEXEI KOVALEV They used their power to try to get it to the crease and jam it. We tried to use the pass and our sp...
ALEXEI KOVALEV On the road, just like anybody else, we try to be patient and see what they can bring. We expected t...
ALEXEI KOVALEV We faced a lot of tough teams on this road trip. But we changed a lot of things before this game and...
ALEXEI KOVALEV We're fighting for the eighth spot in the playoffs, we knew how important this game was.
ALEXEI KOVALEV There are still a lot of games to play. It's only half-a-season. A lot of teams struggled in the beg...
ALEXEI KOVALEV I've said many times, ever since I got traded to Montreal, to give that guy room and give him a chan...
ALEXEI KOVALEV Luzhkov doesn't understand the value of authenticity. For him, to restore means to demolish and rebu...
ALEXEI KLIMENKO Of course, he's talented. But he treats art like a business, churning out his works as if he were ba...
ALEXEI KLIMENKO I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jok...
ALEXEI SAYLE If they don't suspend him and they suspend me, that's just ridiculous. Are we just going to watch th...
ALEXEI KOVALEV This tournament is all about mistakes. If you see every game, a team makes a mistake and the other t...
ALEXEI KOVALEV They have a lot of superstars and they can put the puck in the net and create a lot of scoring chanc...
ALEXEI YASHIN I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its ...
ALEXEI SAYLE Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.
ALEXEI SAYLE The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they ...
ALEXEI SAYLE I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age ...
ALEXEI SAYLE First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You ...
ALEXEI SAYLE Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called ...
ALEXEI PANSHIN Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or...
ALEXEI PANSHIN I can guarantee that every cent from Gregory Olsen goes back into the federal space program.
ALEXEI KRASNOV It's always much nicer when it doesn't hit the post.
ALEXEI YASHIN He tried to hit me and missed but I didn't miss him. I was lucky I saw him at the last second.
ALEXEI KOVALEV It was a disappointing season. I never played on such an unlucky team.
ALEXEI YASHIN We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.
ALEXEI NAVALNY Well... I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle.
ALEXEI MORDASHOV We consider Turkey as a reliable partner to transit gas to third countries. Recent developments in U...
ALEXEI MILLER The puck went in, and the referee admitted that he had blown the whistle before the puck went in and...
ALEXEI YASHIN We had chances to advance the lead and get momentum.
ALEXEI YASHIN Remember that time -- the insane mistrust, not just for people but between countries.
ALEXEI LEONOV dear and intelligent people who decided to show all of humanity that we are different ... but can wo...
ALEXEI LEONOV The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three ye...
ALEXEI SAYLE When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, ...
ALEXEI NAVALNY The future is in green energy; it's in making steel for energy-efficient cars.
ALEXEI MORDASHOV The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the...
ALEXEI NAVALNY People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
ALEXEI SAYLE We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession d...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dear...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without so...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin.
ALEXEI MORDASHOV I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
ALEXEI MORDASHOV People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture pro...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.
ALEXEI MORDASHOV Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a s...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.
ALEXEI NAVALNY Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now,...
ALEXEI NAVALNY Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to ...
ALEXEI NAVALNY I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that t...
ALEXEI NAVALNY People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
ALEXEI NAVALNY People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'
ALEXEI NAVALNY I'm only sort of a politician.
ALEXEI NAVALNY People hate politicians. And I can understand why.
ALEXEI NAVALNY Without any doubt, I am striving for power.
ALEXEI NAVALNY I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.
ALEXEI NAVALNY I am not ready to back away from my views.
ALEXEI NAVALNY I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me ...
ALEXEI NAVALNY We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.
ALEXEI NAVALNY When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including...
ALEXEI NAVALNY I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid inste...
ALEXEI NAVALNY I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go w...
ALEXEI SAYLE I am quite girly.
ALEXEI SAYLE Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial proble...
ALEXEI NAVALNY Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately...
ALEXEI SAYLE