Words of wisdom

04 February 2009 Anastasia Deulina, Vice President, First Reserve Corporation: “Foreign investors will be attracted to the Russian infrastructure theme only slowly. The main problem is one of perception, in that foreigners still do not appreciate the degree of change that has taken place in Russia”
04 February 2009 Lanxin Xiang, Professor, International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies: “The Chinese, unlike the US, have never written off Russia and the relationship now is the best it has ever been. The West will only understand China through Russia”
04 February 2009 Paul Wolfowitz, Ambassador, Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, previously President of the World Bank and US Deputy Secretary of Defense: “President Barack Obama will place more emphasis on diplomacy, but this is not a radical change to what Bush did. The new administration will hope to get more cooperation from Russia”
04 February 2009 Christopher Granville, Managing Director, Trusted Sources: “The time of greatest economic crisis is the time when state actors will cast aside their differences for the sake of stability”
04 February 2009 Alexander Kramarenko, Foreign Policy Planning Department Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: “A rebalancing of the relationship between Russia and the West is going on. Ideology is being taken out of international relations”
04 February 2009 Sir Anthony Brenton, Former British Ambassador to Russia, UK Foreign Office: “Lots of predictions of a cold war are nonsense, as the conditions are just not there. The blocks do not have the same power and there are not the same ideological differences”
30 January 2009 Ruben Vardanian: «The economic model is not outdated; it’s just that you can’t violate its base laws and principles»
30 January 2009 Ruben Vardanian: «Russia has good chances of preserving its stability during the crisis period»
30 January 2009 Pavel Teplukhin: “In order to cope with the crisis, a new world financial architecture is needed”
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