“On September 11, 2008, during a meeting of the Valdai Club with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Carrre dEncausse asked Putin if he would respond positively to Kokoitys demand for integration of South Osse...”

“The Kremlin has made a habit of accusing others of crimes of which it has been accused of itself [228]”

“We should, however, not forget that ethnic cleansing, especially of nonwhite Muslim peoples, has old historical roots in Russia. John Dunlop, for instance, reminds us that in May 1856, Count Kisele...”

“There are two opposing conceptions concerning lies. The first is attributed to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who is reputed to have said, A lie told often enough becomes the truth. There is another one, a...”

“There are two opposing conceptions concerning lies. The first is attributed to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who is reputed to have said, A lie told often enough becomes the truth. There is another one, a...”

“Oh, Blimey O'Riley's pantyhose....What is the point of Shakespeare? I know he is a genius and so on, but he does rave on. 'What light doth through yonder window break?' It's the bloody moon, for Go...”

“Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.”

“In nothing is the difference between the Americans and the Soviets so marked as in the attitude, not only toward writers, but of writers toward their system. For in the Soviet Union the writer's jo...”

“Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or to anyone who has never known that world.”