Though it is clear that present-day Russia poses no threat to it, NATO is methodically and persistently building up its military machine - into the east of Europe and surrounding Russia from the south.
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Related The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the... ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN Russia is in a position where it can influence further developments in the situation surrounding Ira... GRIGORY YAVLINSKY It is clear that Russia is stronger than Ukraine, that it owns the resources and that Ukraine has no... OLEKSANDER DERGACHEV To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat ... VLADIMIR PUTIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Today was a good day for resuming the dialogue and discussion that forms part of the NATO-Russia rel... GEORGE ROBERTSON Yes, of course it would because there would be no veto over NATO operations by Russia or any other n... GEORGE ROBERTSON This is not a dramatic development, as Israel also favors a Middle East clean of nuclear weapons, wh... DAN GILLERMAN Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the ev... MARTIN JACQUES It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russi... WARREN CHRISTOPHER It's the strength of exports that drove earnings in the fourth quarter. We saw extraordinary demand ... BORIS BOEHM Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an ene... VLADIMIR PUTIN Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so, HELMUT KOHL The Chinese want to use Russia in a complicated game with the U.S. and Taiwan. China is expanding it... ALEXANDER GOLTS It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess... ASLAN MASKHADOV Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO. ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that ... WESLEY CLARK Unfortunately, the development will again reinforce the idea that Europe is highly dependent on Russ... ADAM LANDES There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is bad... BRADLEY BYRNE It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I think that most people believe that Russia, because of its - it has regained some of its military ... CHARLIE ROSE If the use of military force, or the threat of use of military force, is necessary to bring about a ... JAVIER SOLANA Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe... VALENTINA MATVIYENKO At present, the WTO is trying to get from Russia concessions on different issues. SERGEI LAVROV We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO. ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI What we are seeing is Russia playing the spoiler for Ukraine because this administration is not very... IVAN LOZOWY We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia... WARREN CHRISTOPHER The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with ... JOE BIDEN The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's inv... IVAN KRASTEV Diversification of supply is a critical component of the natural gas equation. There is no question ... KEN STERN We are interested in Europe and the United States. We are also looking at other markets such as Russ... NORHAMZAH NORDIN is doing very little to get Russia out of the present crisis. BORIS YELTSIN All this leaves no doubt that they are preparing to completely encircle Russia and deprive it of its... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Russia is growing so fast that it's quite hard to estimate its total potential. South America is a r... CARL SIBILSKI The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Russia needs to accept that Poland is an independent player in this part of Europe and no doubt this... JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the pola... KARL MARX The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the pola... KARL MARX I'm not optimistic. Belarus is a European problem, but there is no awareness of it in western Europe... JANUSZ REITER I'm not optimistic, ... Belarus is a European problem, but there is no awareness of it in western Eu... JANUSZ ONYSZKIEWICZ It sure does, Ben, it definitely does...this is definite...it specifically clearly, unequivocally sa... PAT ROBERTSON Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present ... THEODORE C. SORENSEN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Russia wants to restore its superpower status, and that includes putting these countries back into i... YEVGENY VOLK Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orienta... GEORGE F. KENNAN Darwin's theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly... VLADIMIR ONUFRIEVICH KOVALEVSKIĭ The Russian proposal is based on the establishment of a joint Iran-Russia company on Russian soil fo... JAVAD VAIDI Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel res... VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern As... ELMER DAVIS They were afraid of pulling Russia into a larger war if they upset Milosevic, so NATO didn't want to... WENDY CREWSON ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so ... PETER BERGEN Germany's alliance with Russia was not just conceived as a commercial deal, but as a way to integrat... ALEXANDER RAHR It is a threat to Russia in particular, which has seen the biggest growth in non-OPEC output in the ... MEHDI VARZI It is a threat to Russia in particular, which has seen the biggest growth in non-OPEC output in the ... MEHDI VARZI Western media present events in Russia in a thoroughly negative light. Yes, we have problems, and th... GENNADY TIMCHENKO I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks ... ALEXEI NAVALNY Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him th... CARLY FIORINA Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and rem... BORIS YELTSIN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic ... JAMES BUCHAN From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is n... MAELLE GAVET This just rams home how much the Western world is dependent upon the 'Wild West' for its energy supp... IAN HENDERSON But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggag... ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative r... JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portio... HENRY L. STIMSON If this fantasy that somehow we're a military organization bent on the overthrow of Russia -- if tha... SALVATION ARMY There is nothing to be gained by isolating Russia from global mechanisms. What Russia needs is const... ANDREW SOMERS My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the... JAMES GRAY The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it... VLADIMIR PUTIN On Iran, let's be clear. There has been absolutely no discussion in NATO of military action. JAMES APPATHURAI Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON We've had just about every excuse you need to have a flight to safety. It ranges from South America ... KATHY JONES Dependency on Russia should be reduced. The diversification of energy supplies is a common project f... MARTIN BARTENSTEIN They will talk about issues concerning the continued march of democracy in Europe and also in Russia... CONDOLEEZZA RICE A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunif... IVAN KRASTEV Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Is... ISAAC MAYER WISE I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks ... ALEXEI NAVALNY Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up. CASEY STENGEL Clearly, Russia doesn't measure up. Russia doesn't meet the membership criteria. HUGH BARNES Russia has done some serious damage to its otherwise-good reputation for security of supply. Europe ... WILLIAM RAMSAY Everyone I have spoken with about working with the Russians in space exploration believes that the U... RON GARAN The Anglo-Americans want the balance of power in Eurasia. The only balance of power they can achieve... WERNER HEISENBERG Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If ... VITO FOSSELLA The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be bo... HERMAN GORTER It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your soci... HERBERT READ I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took... PAUL KEATING The American day traders have popped up in Russia for the first time. DAVID LONGMUIR It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilitie... H. R. MCMASTER The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to m... DANIEL YERGIN
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest o... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West t... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a stat... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is requir... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary onl... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has eve... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and blac... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myse... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is ... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A sing... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold? ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'reje... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and t... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing? ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN ...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I had a chance to read
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, bel... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN But there is a limit, and beyond it one is no longer willing, one finds it too repulsive, to be a re... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN One should not consider that the great principles of freedom end at your own frontiers, that as long... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age! ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhe... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN