Definition of Russian

Russian

Of or pertaining to Russia, its inhabitants, or language.

A native or inhabitant of Russia; the language of Russia.

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Inhabitant, Language, Native, Of, Or, Pertaining, Russia, The, To

Russian Quotations

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
Richard M. Nixon

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
Leon Trotsky

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.
Carroll Quigley

It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
Regina Spektor

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.
Edward Teller

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
Joseph Conrad

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
Yo-Yo Ma

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
Sidney Sheldon

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.
Manfred von Richthofen

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
Manfred von Richthofen

I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.
Vladimir Putin

Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.
John L. Phillips

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
Kate Adie

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
James Franco

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.
Ryan Reynolds

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.
Jeffrey Sachs

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.
Elia Kazan

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.
Klaus Fuchs

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Russian Translations

Russian in Afrikaans is Russies, Rus
Russian in Danish is russer
Russian in Dutch is Russisch
Russian in French is russe
russian in German is russisch
Russian in Hungarian is orosz
Russian in Italian is Russo
Russian in Portuguese is russo
Russian in Spanish is ruso
Russian in Swedish is ryska, ryss, rysk

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