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It sounds like a little bit of Russian roulette.

It's part of the mystery of the grape. I thought there would be more of a formula, but there isn't. I have a lot of respect for the winegrowers in the Russian River Valley.

does noes not meet the criteria which the Russian side has stated earlier and affirms now.

The new Russian proposal can be studied so that its economic, technical and scientific aspects will be clear.

It's still a game of Russian Roulette. There are so many cars fighting for the same piece of real estate that it's easy to get caught up in someone else's accident.

Efforts to boost the defense capability, in particular to develop new weaponry, as well as plans for reorganizing the Russian Armed Forces have sparked unprecedented interest and activity from foreign intelligence services.

The Blue Stream is the largest Russian gas export project in recent years.

Not that they don't have wonderful skaters, but when I look at the results from some of the junior competitions, I'm not seeing the depth now that I used to see. So I have a question as to when this current crop of Russian skaters are finished whether they'll be as strong. Originally, the (Soviet) system was to assign a wonderful coach to perhaps one or two wonderful competitors and government would reimburse the coaches. Once that was removed, there was anticipation that this method wouldn't continue to produce any good skaters. So far it's been wrong. We'll see in the future.

That isn't to prejudge what the nature and arrangements will be for Russian participation in KFOR, nor has Russia decided categorically that it is going to be part of KFOR, ... potentially quite dangerous.

It just seems like you're playing Russian roulette to dip into reserves, especially in light of what we're facing.

It's great that our Russian partners are here to help us during this time. It would never have occurred without the tragedy of Columbia. So out of that tragedy has come a remarkable relationship between our two countries and our two space programs.

It's hardly surprising that Russian foreign policy is misinterpreted abroad. This happens because the Russian and Western media cite the opinions of NGOs that are heavily bankrolled with foreign capital.

It was probably one Russian too many. It used to be I had to play both Williams sisters and Lindsay Davenport, now it's the Russians. (But) I have surpassed all my expectations of my comeback and feel very good knowing I can go out there and play with the best players in the world.

It's very important now to really establish the continuity of Russian history and traditions. Of course, we cannot take everything from the old Russian traditions, but this real break in Russian history in the Communist era contributed a lot to loss of tradition, to loss of national spirit.

I started like many young Russian people in the beginning of perestroika when it seemed that everything was possible.

It underscores the turmoil that the Russian economy is undergoing right now.

The value of Russian gas stolen by Ukraine during the day (January 1) is more than $25 million.

The value of Russian gas stolen by Ukraine during the day is more than $25million.

They are known as sponsors. Some are divorced and some are married. They come to meet girls who want someone to pamper them with money. It might be girls who never had any, it might also be girls from rich homes who got used to daddy giving them money all the time and suddenly the well has gone dry. Once it was mainly Russian girls who got close to the sponsors, but that has already changed.

They want to make sure that the question is not resolved, that they continue to fight. And they will be a permanent irritating factor in the Russian politics.

They have tried to go back to the Middle Ages, ... Our duty is to protect Russian citizens and restore law and order in this territory.

On behalf of the Chinese government, I express regret over the possible harm to be done to the Russian people by the major environmental pollution accident, ... China fully understands and attaches great importance to the concerns of the Russian side.

Nothing unexpected happened today. After three years of working in the Russian court system, expectations were low.

Not many people in the U.S. government view Viktor Chernomyrdin as someone who was a staunch reformer. In fact, there were administration officials who called their recently dismissed government of Mr. Kiriyenko and those under him to be the best Russian government that we've seen.

After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.

It's NATO's view that Russian troops should not deploy until all the arrangements have been completed.

Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.

evolving into a fully fledged member of the Russian Federation.

(The Kursk) is sitting in the middle of the Russian Northern Fleet's exercise area and they will also want to know exactly what happened,

The context of culture is indivisible. Who can understand Russian music better than Russian musicians?.

The cost of Russian gas stolen by Ukraine over 24 hours was more than US$25 million.

I met a lady there from Buffalo, Mo., and I shared about the mission trip we took to the Ukraine last year and how I had saw a little girl there who I wished I could take home with me, ... That's when she told me she knew a lady who worked for an adoption agency and how they bring these Russian kids over to stay with host families for a couple of weeks.

I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.

I hope they (the solutions) are forthcoming and that the government of the Russian Federation will not conclude that the only answer to terrorism is to increase the power of the Kremlin,

I'm afraid our society is playing Russian roulette when young adults go without health insurance. They deny needed care ... and it increases out-of-pocket expenses for them and their families.

In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.

I'm really looking forward to this great adventure of going to a place halfway around the world and launching on a Russian rocket.

I'm more than happy with this. I worked 12 years for this moment. I'm used to booing. The crowd always cheers the short guy and I'm usually taller. I'm not thinking about being the first Russian heavyweight champion. I'm thinking about how to improve and win more titles.

If Jose's not working, he wants to be with his family. Roman isn't very big on going to black tie dinners and things. He tends to hang around with people he's known since his twenties, and they tend to be his Russian friends.

I had taken Russian in high school, but then I hadn't done anything with it. I'd always wanted to go to Russia but I was busy with my day job.

In 1991, a miraculous thing happened, and that's the Soviet Union ended. So there was an opportunity to build a very healthy and new world, on the basis of the change that the Russian people themselves wanted. But for Russia to make that change was going to be one of the most remarkably difficult and complex passages imaginable.

In essence, priority national projects are the mechanism that will help us improve the living standards of every Russian citizen.

I'm a poet and I've read a lot of Russian poetry and can hear It's sounds. Russian poetry is so important to an understanding of the culture.

If Russian roulette was manslaughter, then that was what happened here. Nathaniel Brazill was playing Russian roulette

If you go online, and you're a kid, and you're buying something you think is Jack Daniels or some Russian Vodka, how do you know you're not getting gasoline mixed with something else bottled up and sent to you? It frightens the mind to think of all of the possibilities of what's online and available to children.

In the Soyuz, the little Russian capsule, you can actually hear the banging of the big shield, the big heat shield on the bottom, as it slowly erodes away from the heat and pieces of it fly off like sparks across your window, and it's an interesting thing to ride through, you know.

In the 1990s, Russian stocks traded at low valuations because everyone was worried about being robbed by the oligarchs. Now everyone is worried about being robbed by the government.

In Russian literature, Moscow is a calm city - but St. Petersburg is the place where all the bad things happen.

I remember the intellectual fashion for American decline in the 1970s. There was the stunning defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam , rioting in Detroit and Newark that suggested the social fabric was coming apart, talk of Rust Belt America unable to compete with the Japanese, and a sense the Russian bear was on the march.

I remember the intellectual fashion for American decline in the 1970s, ... There was the stunning defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam , rioting in Detroit and Newark that suggested the social fabric was coming apart, talk of Rust Belt America unable to compete with the Japanese, and a sense the Russian bear was on the march.

I love the dancers in the Bolshoi, but all of my Moscow friends are outside the company. A friend introduced me to Vika Gazinskaya, a well-known Russian designer. I met her group. The rest is history.

I'll tell you the truth: This year is my year. I win the Olympic gold - that was my dream. I win the Russian championships, the European championships, the Olympics, all events. Also, my wife - she's pregnant. Our first baby on the way. I tell you, it's my year.

I hope our meeting will heighten your interest in the Russian economy,

I have received an official request from the government of the Russian Federation for additional food assistance, ... The United States is now in the process of reviewing this request.

I have to disagree with the Russian coach. We would not have changed our game plan if the Russians had scored one goal.

I played with a lot of guys in this room, ... And with the younger guys I worked out in the summer. And the Russian guys they know me from over there. I'm kind of a man of the world.

In the letter, Milosevic stressed that the main reason that he was not allowed to go to Moscow for medical treatment was the existing fear by some that the careful examination by the Russian hospital would reveal that his health was being systematically destroyed. Milosevic pointed out that during the last five years he had never used any such antibiotics, especially since he never had leprosy or tuberculosis or any kind of infectious disease except for the flu.

In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads.

In terms of the Eastern Europe stories, my family is originally from there; even as a kid, it was the Russian writers I loved most, and I've spent a substantial amount of time there myself, traveling and on research grants.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

I had a great time and those kids gave me a real feel for the Russian community and what it's like to be here. The kids were very genuine and well educated and there was a nice enthusiasm throughout the room. It was a wonderful opportunity.

Iraq's debt to the Russian Federation comes to $8 billion U.S. and as far as the Russian government's position on this, it is not planning any kind of write-off of that debt.

Iran's success in gaining technology and materials from Russian companies, combined with recent indigenous Iranian advances, means it could have a medium-range missile capability much sooner than I assessed last year.

I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec, and if Quebec were to separate, I would feel I had been cut in two.

He's just a strong, hard-nosed kid. He could do certain things -- he's a beast with his Russian tie -- but he didn't know what he was working for, what he was trying to get. He was just going forward. A good wrestler knows where he's going with a move before the move. He's got to try to score. I had to put it in his head (that) you do this, then try to do this.

He's our best, most complete player. Alex plays head to head against the top players and there are few No. 1 centers who are asked to play against the other team's No. 1 center. He's a good offensive player, but he's equally good defensively. He's a classic Russian center like they produced back in the Soviet Union days.

I didn't know how, but I had to fight through it. I was a little tired. He was slipping my Russian tie a little better, so I adjusted a little bit. I felt him breaking (in the third period).

Before passing the Land Code, they should have looked into the Russian constitution,

Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.

Chernomyrdin is known as an opportunist, the one who cares more about foreign interests than core Russian or Yugoslav interests.

He told the people the truth - not the whole truth, but it was the first time in Russian history that a leader has told the people the bitter truth.

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.

German and Russian companies do business on the basis of mutual gain and it will stay that way. But good relations open doors.

If I am going to invest in Russian gas, I should have a clear understanding that I can bring that gas to market.

I declare the resignation of the government of the Russian Federation,

I am president of Russian Standard Company, biggest luxury vodka in Russia. My bank, Russian Standard Bank, issues biggest number of credit cards in Russia. I want for Russian people to have their own best vodka, their own best bank, their own best credit card.

I can't convince anyone it isn't CGI, ... Actually, I went to the Czech Republic and found a guy who owns, privately, 100 Russian T-72 tanks. It was no problem to lend them to me, but he needed them back to sell to Libya. I also had to inform NATO we were filming there. Someone in the Pentagon could have been looking at satellite images and noticed an arms buildup.

I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.

I do not have verification that there were units or groups of the size that Newsday reports. But we do believe that there was some Russian participation.

The uncertainty in the Russian tax regime is definitely a problem. In my view however it is not greatly surprising. As barrel prices are far higher than anyone expected to expect these kind of deals - between companies and government - to remain stable isn't really possible.

This has real been quite an ordeal. This has been a real matter of pride and dignity for the Russian people.

This has had a considerable impact on Russian willingness to accommodate U.S. interests.

This has caused serious concerns for the Russian side. The proportion of value-added products shipped to China should be increased.

Alex exercised his right to opt out of the Russian contract this past summer and signed with the Capitals. We are confident that the court will uphold Alex's contractual status and decision.

Airbus really wants to get an order out of Aeroflot and appears to be losing to Boeing. There's a real concern the Russian aviation market might just close up again so Airbus wants to have a presence on the inside.

And his long coats. He does an ankle length Russian broad-tail topped with chinchilla, and a great black cashmere coat that's lined in black, sheared mink ... throughout his whole collection, you can see the hand of the couturier.

The emphasis of this facility is on the joint monitoring of Russian power plants and American power plants. In addition, at these joint command centers we will have American specialists in Russia and Russian specialists here in case there are some emergencies.

The energy alliance Germany is forging with Russia has the same philosophy behind it. To find a way to bind this huge Russian neighbor into a common European space, develop interdependent structures and ties, create some kind of trust, and then also benefit from easy access to the Russian gas fields which are at Europe's front door.

The import surge can be specifically linked to the Asian and Russian economic crises.

A great deal of energy is spent daily on pushing the Russian e-commerce boom along while managing all aspects of growth and development along the way.

And it is at least strange that, while talking about a certain 'pulling back', as he put it, on some of the democratic reforms in the Russian Federation, he tried to assert yet one more time the thought that democracy can only be copied from someone's model,

The goal of Kremlin strategists appears to be a weak coalition government in Ukraine that will be more vulnerable to Russian economic pressure. One twin is looking to Moscow, the other to Washington. And they can't separate.

The draft resolution that was circulated by the EU3 today around midday includes the points previously voiced by the Russian Foreign Ministry,

The foreign visitors program is important to our national security, ... We want Russian scientists to know how they should control their nuclear weapons.... Let's not get hysterical and overreach.

The forecast annual growth rate over the next 10 years of just over 1 percent reflects the chronic underinvestment that plagues the Russian oil sector because of persistent regulatory uncertainties and growing state interference,

The FSB has reliable documented evidence of active attempts by British intelligence to learn Russian military secrets.

The Chinese people will never forget the precious support offered by then Soviet people. The deep friendship between the Chinese and Russian people is our common treasure,

The Commission is still optimistic that a deal can be reached. We have concerns because some member states are more dependent on Russian gas than others.

All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

The market has been kind of playing Russian roulette with the weather, ... If the weather stays mild and continues to cooperate, $55 to $56 a barrel is probably reasonable.