The West is pathetically naive about Russian reformers. We long to believe they are real liberals, but no liberal will ever rule Russia.

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• Simon Sebag Montefiore:

  President Yeltsin's instincts were decent: he encouraged the marketplace, the press flourished, and

• Simon Sebag Montefiore:

  No one can take away the experience of Yeltsin's freedoms, but Russian democracy will never follow

• Simon Sebag Montefiore:

  Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermin

• Simon Sebag Montefiore:

  The tsar of War and Peace, especially in the BBC version, is a complete popinjay and a useless char

• Simon Sebag Montefiore:

  Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861.

• Simon Sebag Montefiore:

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• Simon Sebag Montefiore:

  Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are end

• Jim Nussle:

  I am pleased with the direction we are moving in.

• Jim Nussle:

  I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be,

• Jim Nussle:

  The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.