Gary Shteyngart
Related Texas does not need Big Brother watching over us; this is America, not Soviet Russia. KIM ALEXANDER Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become... LILIA SHEVTSOVA GARY SHTEYNGART TATYANA TOLSTAYA VLADIMIR PUTIN An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th centur... THOMAS P.M. BARNETT Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down ... KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND Many greeted the truth as an enemy. And freedom as well. SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH Why didn't we put Stalin on trial? I'll tell you why...In order to condemn Stalin, you'd have to con... SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH In March 2007, Russia could become a member. MAXIM MEDVEDKOV AYN RAND In America you can always find a party. In Russia the party always finds you. YAKOV SMIRNOFF to the victor go the spoils THE AMERICA ZIGGY MARLEY Russia has become an enormous black hole for our money, JEFFREY ROBINSON GARY SHTEYNGART MILOS ZEMAN DAVID BEN-GURION A society that will not embrace the Holy Spirit of God is encouraging satanic influences. We are not... AJIBIKE AKINKOYE Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fat... RICHARD LUGAR Florence could feel a constriction in her chest…She had been foolish enough to hope that whatever ... SANA KRASIKOV Florence, listen to me carefully.... Take whatever that agent offers you. Give him what he wants, an... SANA KRASIKOV She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting SANA KRASIKOV This year, Russia has become a different country. It is no longer a democratic country. It is no lon... ANDREI ILLARIONOV In America, Russia and even in Afghanistan, the Universities are not only themselves eager to introd... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA People learn details about China, Russia and America; they know about the volcanoes of the Pacific o... ATHARVA VEDA I had conversations with people in Russia, South America, Africa. In my profiles, I wrote that I was... MIKE SUMMERS After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore. YAKOV SMIRNOFF The difficulty with combating piracy in any form in a country like Russia is that it has become so a... CUSHING ANDERSON EVGENY MOROZOV For many large investors, a global strategy that does not include China, India, and Russia has becom... GREGORY K. ERICKSEN My mother had been in the Soviet whirlpool for eleven years by this point. Enough time, I imagine, t... SANA KRASIKOV In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America... PENELOPE WILTON It is bad for America. It is bad for the rest of the world. It is bad for Russia, but it's your deci... VYACHESLAV NIKONOV JAMES MATTIS At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a par... MASHA GESSEN Perestroika was an impossible idea on the face of it. The Party was setting out to employ its struct... MASHA GESSEN If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered - viscerally, emotionally remembered - what S... ANNE APPLEBAUM ARTHUR KOESTLER JEFF SESSIONS It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So muc... JOHN AMERY Ford realizes they have to do more cost cutting. North America is disappointing, but it was expected... WIL STITH The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 ot... JEFFREY SACHS I've discovered as an author that the process of writing a novel becomes harder over time, not e... TAWNI O'DELL Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way. ANATOLY CHUBAIS ANNA LINDH New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably... ELLIE KEMPER It's more like a love-hate relationship. The Russian thing is more about our ancestors. Both of my g... JARKKO RUUTU She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting SANA KRASIKOV From the moment Julian entered the world, Florence had begun to conceive of life as separate from th... SANA KRASIKOV Florence could feel a constriction in her chest…She had been foolish enough to hope that whatever ... SANA KRASIKOV Only then, as she prepared to cross the avenue, did she again spot the man in the fedora hat. He was... SANA KRASIKOV Was it an instinct towards their future life together that she was already sensing, which made her p... SANA KRASIKOV Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories SANA KRASIKOV A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism SANA KRASIKOV Florence imagined the Hammer and Sickle metallurgical plant to be an enormous brick factory like the... SANA KRASIKOV Sunset was just then settling over Red Square. There seemed some hidden vision to be gleaned. A mess... SANA KRASIKOV Moscow appeared to her as an Asiatic sprawl of twisting streets, wooden shanties, and horse cabs. Bu... SANA KRASIKOV Our communists aren’t like your communists. In New York they’re always on the street demonstrati... SANA KRASIKOV Sergey described the mighty furnaces and plants rising up from the steppes. “How far we’ve come.... SANA KRASIKOV Florence, listen to me carefully. He squeezed her hand. Take whatever that agent offers you. Give hi... SANA KRASIKOV MITT ROMNEY LINDSAY LOHAN Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to t... STEPHEN COHEN There is no more anti-Semitism on the state level, as we saw in Soviet times, but instead we have a ... YITZHAK KOGAN Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best ... JUDY BLUME The growth of China, and more recently India, will make it possible for other countries to grow as w... CLYDE PRESTOWITZ Russia wants to play mediator between the West and Islamic world. But that won't bring any good beca... ALEXEI ARBATOV DAVID REMNICK LEON TROTSKY LEON TROTSKY LOUIS THEROUX ERIC SCHLOSSER It seems like college has become more of a social club. GREG TURNER When you start polling the world for where major oil companies can do business, you have West Africa... BRUCE LANNI As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services,... BARRY SILBERT The Bolshevik leaders perched atop the Mausoleum were no easier to tell apart than chess pawns. But ... SANA KRASIKOV Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist... MARTIN CRUZ SMITH After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, camerame... DANIEL SILVA JAMES A. MICHENER MICHAEL IGNATIEFF SERGEI LAVROV ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE CARL SAGAN PAUL MCCARTNEY AL FRANKEN BARACK OBAMA America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global cu... JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD INGMAR BERGMAN Russia is growing so fast that it's quite hard to estimate its total potential. South America is a r... CARL SIBILSKI I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal. SI ROBERTSON Receiving a good education has become more important than ever in America. It is increasingly diffic... E.R. ROCK BORIS YELTSIN The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have g... DASHA ZHUKOVA WOODROW WILSON WOODROW T. WILSON ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I
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