'Child 44' has no room for inconsequential choices because Stalinist Russia had no room for them, either.
Sarah Weinman
ChildChoicesRussiaRoomBecause
In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.
Anna Netrebko
WaitDreamRussiaPretendPrince
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.
Ray Bradbury
WarWorldStartRussiaForgotten
When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.
John Wayne
WiseOverRussiaUniversityPretty
Russia has never been very good at explaining itself to foreigners.
Margarita Simonyan
GoodNeverRussiaBeenExplaining
Between 1995 and 2009, Western Europe's entrepreneurs created jobs faster than the U.S. did, and European economies exported more than the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Eastern Europe's productivity increased more rapidly than East Asia's.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
IndiaMoreRussiaEuropeChinaThan
I do believe that both countries, China and Russia, that both of them are responsible countries.
Lee Myung-bak
BelieveResponsibleRussiaChina
When I was young, I always wanted to go to Russia.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
GoYoungAlwaysRussiaWanted
For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.
Ivan Krastev
ImportantRussiaChinaUnion
Russia's oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.
Roger Altman
TechnologyMatureOilRussiaFields
Russia was culturally isolated for so long that some sort of transformation needs to happen and will happen.
Dasha Zhukova
TransformationLongWillRussiaSome
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
Mikhail Gorbachev
GovernmentSupportYouRussiaGet
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
PeaceMediaGenocideRussiaBring
Were it my choice, I would not vote for Russia to hold the Winter Olympics or the Summer Olympics. But it's not my choice.
Mitt Romney
WinterChoiceSummerVoteRussia
We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
Warren Christopher
PathStrongMatterRussiaSeeUs
While the specifics of Russia's interference in the 2016 American election remain unclear, no one doubts that Moscow has built a robust technological arsenal for waging cyberattacks.
Jared Cohen
AmericanElectionRussiaDoubts
I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Vanessa Mae
WinterTrainingViolinTwoRussia
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.
Cheech Marin
WifeLearnBornThreeRussiaOut
We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Rand Paul
NeedRussiaStillFactConscious
International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
Boris Yeltsin
ChallengeDownTerrorismRussiaJust
There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.
Oxana Chusovitina
ChildWaitingChanceYouRussia
I don't feel any connection to Russia.
Anton Yelchin
FeelConnectionRussiaAny
We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
Ingvar Kamprad
GroupNeedRussiaChinaTakeStill
In February 2016, Russia arrested seven alleged ISIS militants who were plotting attacks in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The group included Russians and Central Asians and a ringleader who had come from Turkey.
Peter Bergen
FebruaryGroupRussiaAsiansCome
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