Quotes About Ukrainian

#1. The West appears to have decided for the Ukrainian people what their choice is. The EU does not condemn violent actions in Ukraine which are punishable in the West.

Sergey Lavrov

#2. The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

Viktor Yushchenko

#3. The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

Vera Farmiga

#4. Far too often, the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.

Henry A. Kissinger

#5. Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#6. The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.

Norman Davies

#7. The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.

Matt Czuchry

#8. Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

Victor Pinchuk

#9. Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.

Vera Farmiga

#10. I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.

Viktor Yanukovych

#11. I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

Vera Farmiga

#12. Russia has done more than any other country to support the independent Ukrainian state, including for many years subsidising its economy through low energy prices.

Sergei Lavrov

#13. I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

Viktor Yanukovych

#14. My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

Bob Schaffer

#15. I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.

Milla Jovovich

#16. The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.

Sergei Lavrov

#17. Erich Koch, chosen by Hitler to rule Ukraine, made the point about the inferiority of Ukrainians with a certain simplicity: "If I find a Ukrainian who is worthy to sit with me at table, I must have him shot." Even

Timothy Snyder

#18. Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

Garry Kasparov

#19. I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Vera Farmiga

#20. In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

Pope Francis

#21. I don't really know what 'American' is. I know what Ukrainian is. We're happy Slavic people. We're not Dostoyevsky Slavic people. There's this sense of 'pick it up, get your hands dirty, make the best of it, celebrate.'

Nina Arianda

#22. I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#23. I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws.

Viktor Yushchenko

#24. What is the purpose of these dolls?"

"To play with, of course."

"Do they look Ukrainian, with their plastic eyes and muddy features blended from every race on earth?

Paul Christensen

#25. I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.

Neko Case

#26. When Luba was born, her parents named her after the Ukrainian word for love. Lubov. Moya Luba. Lubochka. Every letter Roman had ever written Luba started out with a different variation of her name.

Ksenia Rychtycka

#27. NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation.

Sergei Lavrov

#28. He was the one who told us about Ivo Mesic hightailing it out of there on the day the Ukrainian tried to kill you at DB.

David Baldacci

#29. I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#30. I have been a figure skater for so long that when I stopped that competitive day-to-day grind, I didn't know what to do with myself. I don't know how the world works outside of being barked at by a Ukrainian woman and watching my weight.

Johnny Weir

#31. Ukrainian proverb: The fear of death takes away the joy of living

Andy Szpuk

#32. Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

Bob Schaffer

#33. In Soviet writing the demonization of all forms of Ukrainian nationalism has a long tradition, and would make an interesting study in itself. Soviet writers considered almost any criticism of their state - and, from the 1930s, of the Russian Empire - as "fascist" or "counterrevolutionary,

Myroslav Shkandrij

#34. An old Ukrainian proverb warns, "A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil." That is a risk we have to take.

Tom Robbins

#35. I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#36. Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.

Sergei Lavrov

#37. The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy.

John F. Kerry

#38. We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for running the country, which speaks for itself. At the same time, we do not refuse to deal with them. We stay in touch at the ministerial level.

Vladimir Putin

#39. Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

Vladimir Putin

#40. The Ukrainian authorities said Thursday that former President Viktor F. Yanukovych and Russian security agents were involved in plans for elite police units

Anonymous

#41. The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#42. Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.

Tariq Ali

#43. I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#44. When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories throughout the day. And when it came time to go to preschool, my English wasn't really so great because my mother wanted me to learn Ukrainian, so she signed me up for these children's theater groups.

Nina Arianda

#45. The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

Yulia Tymoshenko

#46. I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.

Marcy Kaptur

#47. I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

Vera Farmiga

#48. Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.

Leon Trotsky

#49. The sign at the door was written with a backward R, to make it look Russian, which caused a minor echo of panic. Was it a reference to Merchenko? No, surely Westwood knew the difference between Russia and Ukraine. But were there Ukrainian-themed bars, for a pedantic tormentor?

Lee Child