<blockquote>'Putin’s Russia has not brought a revival of spiritual values, as state-controlled TV tries to convince us. It has caused Russia’s moral decay. And as long as Russians approach every problem through the filter of whether it will affect them personally, this country can move in only one direction – backward.'
- Zhanna Nemtsova,
Moving Backward: Russia's Moral Decay (Op-Ed), December 28, 2015</blockquote>
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'The clock is ticking..' - Olga Romanova'..the Russian Federation is facing the same problem as the Soviet Union did..''..Putin .. is lying to the Russian people and to the entire world.''..Additional losses could be billed for the Russian-supported war in southeast Ukraine..''Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.' - Ronald Reagan</blockquote>