Republics Quotes

We will bring order both to Dagestan and other republics in the North Caucasus. - Boris Yeltsin

We hope that our partners [in negotiations] will follow the same working principles as we do - mutual trust, transparency, predictability - and will certainly follow the existing agreements, which allowed us to build peacekeeping mechanisms and prevented new bloodshed in the former Soviet republics in the last 12 years. - Sergei Lavrov

We are afraid only that those changes will be chaotic. Otherwise there will be banana republics where he who shouts loudest wins. - Vladimir Putin

There's a three-way struggle or contest going on with the Central Asian republics, involving Russia, China, and the United States. Beijing is pursuing a very active diplomacy at the moment, [not only] in Central Asia [but in] the South Pacific, Latin America, Africa, which it can afford to do because of its enormous economic gravitational pull. - Glen Barclay

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own. - Robert Welch

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. - Ambrose Bierce

The key goal here is, of course, to restore the entire technological cycle, because the nuclear industry of the Soviet Union was scattered throughout the republics. - Sergei Kirienko

The Chechen conflict is spilling into neighboring republics, escalating the process of destabilization. - Alexei Malashenko