Caucasus Quotes

• The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Rocks, Egypt, Pyramids

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• We are confident that the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations can become the greatest input of the recent decades in achieving peace and stability in the South Caucasus. With this vision, we have agreed to move forward without any preconditions, not making our relations contingent upon Turkey's recognition of the Armenian Genocide. However, if, as many suspect, it is proven that Turkey's goal is to protract, rather than to normalize relations, we will have to discontinue the process.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Moving, Turkeys, Goal

  Speech by President Serzh Sargsyan in the Chatham House British Royal Institute of International Affairs, February 10, 2010.

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• Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus.

  Yunus-bek Yevkurov

  Expectations, Peaceful, This Generation

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• A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.

  Serge Schmemann

  Middle East, Narrative, Insult

  "From the Editor" by Serge Schmemann, www.nytimes.com. December 02, 2010.

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• International terrorists have proved quite skilled at misleading many people about what is actually happening here in the Caucasus, and they continue to mislead people today.

  Vladimir Putin

  People, Today, Terrorist

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• It is rather difficult to envisage a scenario that could change the domestic situation in the countries of the South Caucasus without solving the problems constantly hindering normal cooperation in the region.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Normal, Cooperation

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• The Hindu faith and the information for its sacred books, the Vedas, were taken to the Indian subcontinent by the Aryans from the Caucasus Mountains, one of the centers for extraterrestrials/inner terrestrials and their offspring.

  David Icke

  Book, Taken, Mountain

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• Furthermore, the situation in the North Caucasus is rather unstable. Mutual relations and the cooperation between [Vladimir] Putin and [Ramzan] Kadyrov, the high price that has been paid to buy the loyalty of the local elite through an enormous tribute of multibillion[-ruble] investments, all this cannot be an arrangement for good.

  Garry Kasparov

  Loyalty, Cooperation, Investment

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• At the northern border of Azerbaijan, Daghestan by no means contributes to the democratization of the Caucasus.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mean, Azerbaijan, Borders

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• There's the blazing Russian Caucasus, with an ongoing war all against all, which is not to be neglected.

  Garry Kasparov

  War, Ongoing, Blazing

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.

  Garry Kasparov

  Problem, Conflict, Structure

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• The situation in the [North Caucasus ] region can easily get out of control if the capital inflow is interrupted. It is apparent, even when leaving democratic institutions and values aside for a moment, that [Vladimir] Putin's regime has led the country down a blind alley. Our task is to usher in a shift of paradigms, a new foundation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Leaving, Foundation

  Source: www.rferl.org

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