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If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.


Mikhail Bakunin

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MIKHAIL KAMYNIN We expect Slovakia to join in the creation of four common Russia-EU spaces and the enhancement of co...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a h...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced ...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an a...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV 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 Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV 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 Of course I invited Bush and Margaret Thatcher and (Spanish former prime minister) Felipe Gonzalez, ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV 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 While adhering to his convictions, with which one could agree or disagree, he was not dogmatic; he w...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV 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 I can see one guy doing what we call an 'air flare' ... and I'll see 30 other individuals do the sam...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV devotion to his followers is a remarkable example to all of us.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV There is no love sincerer than the love of food
GEORGE MIKHAIL [Gorbachev, who once said the collapse of the Iron Curtain would have been impossible without the po...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV 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