Saturday, January 21, 2012

Putin's Russia

Russian leader Vladimir Putin, in a speech given in 2008, about his view of Russia:
Maintaining the governance of a vast territory, preserving a unique commonwealth of peoples while occupying a major place in world affairs calls… for enormous sacrifices and privations on the part of our people.
The source for this quote is a book review of David Satter's The Character of Russia, from The Montreal Review.