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How to use the word Russian in a Sentence?

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Generals always prepare to fight the last war, but the Russian generals did n’t even prepare to fight the last war.

Vasily Pavlov

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

I will say it in Russian : The man from the Kremlin is obviously very afraid and probably hiding somewhere, not showing himself.

Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

What he always took pride in is the solidity of Russian statehood and political stability, that’s what they loved him for. And it turns out that it does n’t exist.

Sergei Markov

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

Sir Winston Churchill

added by Normando
10 months ago

It will be the memorial not only for those people who will be buried there from the battles of Russian-Ukrainian war, for the heroes, but also it will be the memorial for all of the defenders of our country when Ukraine was fighting for the independence in different historical periods.

Yulia Laputina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most of the propagandists that social media companies are most worried about, like the Russian government, the Chinese government, extremist groups, have a lot of resources.

Samuel Woolley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was forced to obtain a passport of the Russian Federation but then immediately they took it away from him, saying that they will process papers for adoption.

Maria Lvova-Belova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Donbass Devushka Telegram, Twitter, YouTube, and Spotify accounts more-or-less function as disinformation aggregators and amplifiers, donbass Devushka’s success has even been noticed by Russian diplomats and overt propagandists, who have retweeted the account dozens of times this year.

Joe Bodnar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Donbass Devushka’s success has even been noticed by Russian diplomats and overt propagandists, who have retweeted the account dozens of times this year.

Joe Bodnar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s a responsibility that I think the global community expects Russia to bear, this is something we’re discussing with our partners, but there are legal constraints on what we can do with frozen Russian assets.

Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We call for the Russian Federation to immediately release Mr. Gershkovich, we also call on Russia to release wrongfully detained U.S. citizen Paul Whelan.

Paul Whelan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Russian Empire is trying still to grab the territories around it, but freedom is winning. Ukraine is winning, and we have to make that win decisive and get to peace.

Oksana Markarova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The trade disruptions incurred by the Russian aggression should not take place at the expense of farmers from neighboring countries.

The Commission

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Russia is looking for any way to seize the information initiative, to try to influence the scenario plans for Ukraine’s counteroffensive, to raise doubts, compromise previous ideas and frighten with their ‘awareness.’ But these are just standard elements of the Russian intelligence’s operational game and nothing more. It has nothing to do with Ukraine’s real plans.

Mykhailo Podolyak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They will want not only to surprise the Russians with the time and location of their main and supporting thrusts, but will want to generate an operational tempo that overwhelms the Russian ability to respond quickly or at the right time with the right force.

Mick Ryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Of course, just like any nationality, there are several people who do not really obey the law, but I don’t think that is something to be focused on, the removal of visa upon arrivals for Russian tourists is just a proposal and I hope the matter does not become a problem.

Indonesia Lyudmila Vorobieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are the only ones that are explicitly saying ‘we need this war to survive. We need this war to continue to restore the greatness of Russian Empire,’ they have a very strong ideological mindset. They see Russia as a victorious state in this conflict. And their goal is for Russia to win and conquer all of Ukraine, and even potentially fight with NATO.

Kateryna Stepanenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These people know each other, often travel to the same destinations, communicate and have a closed system. Tatarsky occupied a significant place in this community, at the same time, he was also a critic of the Russian officer corps and the upper echelon making decisions about military actions. Sometimes his … analysis caused a wave of negative reactions among officers, because he, as a staunch defender of Russia and its army, wanted to see this army more successful than it actually was.

Ruslan Trad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They have set a steady diet of pro-war, anti-West, anti-Ukrainian propaganda to the hard right elements of Russia for many years now. And they have, in many ways, popularized the Wagner group brand and the Russian way of war.

Candace Rondeaux

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Russian Ministry of Defense did not acknowledge it, they did not talk about it in their regular coverage, and (the bloggers) suddenly went from being this small group that was covering nationalist topics and Russian conflicts worldwide to becoming the source of information in Russia.

Kateryna Stepanenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The illegitimate restrictions imposed on the Russian economy may indeed have a negative impact on it in the medium term.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Of course, I’m already using my voice, i have already created another Instagram channel, in which I continue to publish posts. I think it’s now my daily job to discredit the Russian army because the Russian army is committing crimes on the territory of Ukraine.

Olesya Krivtsova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The crime of aggression is a leadership crime, we believe that top perpetrators, top representatives of political and military leadership of the Russian Federation, their crime is a crime of aggression. Their crime is a crime of waging aggressive war, because this crime gave birth to all the other crimes.

Anton Korynevych

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the Bakhmut direction, there is only Wagner, when there is lack of forces, they are being reinforced by Russian airborne troops, sometimes by infantry, we knock them out. In fact, there will be no more Wagner fighters in a little while if they continue the same dynamics.

Serhii Cherevatyi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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