#russ

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#doctor #had #head #heard #him

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies. ↗

— Martin Landau

#before #five #just #our #russians

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#destroyed #doing #elbows #era #even

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#friendship #glass #i #like #raise

It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#against #army #chechnya #combat #economic

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners. ↗

— Valentina Matviyenko

#course #different #interests #nevertheless #partners

The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president. ↗

— Valentina Matviyenko

#demands #lord #mentality #president #russian

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis. ↗

— James Monroe

#continue #france #friendly #great #i

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales. ↗

— Modest Mussorgsky

#got #i #nanny #russian #tales

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#day #efforts #happens #history #hope