"Politika" (Politics) - General information on Russia, its government structure, major political parties and media.
Database on Russian Issues - A searchable collection of information on political developments, leaders and organizations, administrative subdivisions and ethnic groups. Maintained by the Center for Russian Studies of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Politruk - A weekly survey of major Russian periodicals by WPS Media Monitoring Agency, following the fortunes of post-Soviet Russia.
Russian Radical Moral Opposition - "Ave Maria" Movement, a radical opposition to the Russia's oligarchic regime, former chiefs, "nomenclature" of CPSU.
Center for Current Politics in Russia - Non-profit research organization involved in analysis of Russian politics, economic situation and foreign policy.
Terror-99 - Information on blasts in Russian cities (Moscow, Volgodonsk and Buinaksk) and the bomb scare incident in Ryazan in 1999.
North West Center for Strategic Research - The mission of the organization is to formulate and lobby for adoption of strategic development policies in the Northwest federal district of Russia.
Russian Expert Review - An online periodical offering English-language up-to date news, articles and reports by Russian think-tanks and research institutions.
Carnegie Moscow Center - Programs, publications and staff of the research organization focusing on Russian domestic political affairs and foreign policy.
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Politics This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Politics If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Politics
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Politics Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Politics Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Politics
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Politics Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Politics
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Politics You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Politics
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Politics If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Politics
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Politics They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Politics
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Politics Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Politics
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Politics Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Politics
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Politics "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Politics
