Russian Journalist Quotes

Anna Politkovskaya

Isaac Babel

Dmitry Glukhovsky

Leonid Bershidsky

A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

Dmitry Glukhovsky

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial - whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.

Anna Politkovskaya

Any artisan, unlike a politician, for example, does not do something just because it is useful or effective at the moment; he does what could and should be done instead.

Leonid Bershidsky