What Russians Are Saying

 Quotes of What Russians are saying according to Google:                             

"Why would it matter what a little country thinks of us? We are an enormous and rich country with a lot of resources. We don’t really need anyone’s support.”

Olga Kryshtanovskaya, prominent Russian sociologist and former senior member of the pro-Putin United Russia party, commenting to The Moscow News on speculations that countries or athletes will boycott the upcoming Sochi Olympics because of Russia’s controversial law banning gay propaganda

“Your president, Barack Obama, is holding terrorists in Cuba. That’s a mistake. Cuba’s a resort – it’s warm, there’s fruit. Send them here, to Siberia. We have good camps, let them serve their sentences there.”

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the LDPR party, on how Guantanamo Bay’s warm climate renders it unsuitable for a detention camp

 “I suddenly noticed that I haven’t been afraid to take walks around Yekaterinburg at night the last couple of years. I now have confidence that nobody’s going to harass or rape me.”

“Anya,” supposedly a 24-year-old supporter of Deputy Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Yakov Silin in his campaign for mayor of Yekaterinburg, posting on the politician’s campaign page on Facebook. Awkwardly, the picture of “Anya” was actually that of 26-year-old British actress Emilia Clarke, famous for her role playing Queen Daenerys Targaryen on the TV show Game of Thrones. The actress’s alleged “walks around Yekaterinburg” were the target of a wave of online jokes and sarcasm, and the page’s administrators claimed it was just a “fantasy post,” saying they wouldn’t be ashamed of showing Clarke around the city

"In the Russian language, as in the Russian soul, there are a lot of rooms. There is not enough time in life to see them all. The best thing is if you have a Russian friend who can show you where the fire exit is."

English actor Ralph Fiennes, who is currently filming a movie adaptation of Ivan Turgenev’s 1872 play “A Month in the Country” in a village in the Smolensky region, on learning Russian for his role

“English is not my first language, so they just didn’t understand what I said yesterday. I just wanted to say that people should respect the laws of another country, especially when they’re guests there. I want to make clear that I respect the views of other athletes. I strongly oppose any discrimination against homosexuals because of their sexual orientation, which contradicts the Olympic charter.”

Famed Russian pole vaulter Elena Isinbayeva, backtracking on comments she made in support of Russia’s ban on gay propaganda. After winning a world title at the World Athletics Championships on Tuesday, Isinbayeva answered a question about the ban in English, saying ‘If we allow to do all this stuff on the street, we are afraid about our nation because we consider ourselves like normal, standard people. We just live boys with woman, woman with boys.’ She now says the journalists understood her answer incorrectly

“Love in a Russian man is expressed in a type of tender savagery.”

Russian-American writer and editor Diana Bruk, in a recent Salon.com article on the intricacies of dating Russian men

“A bird like a pigeon, with the light hand of Pablo Picasso, became an embodiment of peace. But actually, in a sanitary sense, it’s one of the sloppiest and stupidest birds…We’re working together with veterinary services on this issue. But we’re not taking special measures.”

Chief Sanitary Inspector Gennady Onishchenko, on how an apparent increase in the number of sick and dying pigeons around the capital shouldn’t be a cause for much alarm

Going by these quotes alone which is highly unfair, but this is what I've got: They don’t talk government or about constructive things like health or taxes(which are going up). They like to rationalize their actions rightly or wrongly and at this point in time they are afraid of pigeons.

Adam Gonzalez