Alan Furst
Alan Furst

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.

Aleksandr Lebed
Aleksandr Lebed

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

Alex Berenson
Alex Berenson

For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.

Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

Alexander Ovechkin
Alexander Ovechkin

In Moscow, if you have money, you're king. If you don't - sorry, man, get lost. I mean, it's like this everywhere. But in Moscow, it's much more hard-core.

Alexander Ovechkin
Alexander Ovechkin

Moscow is a big city. It's all nerves - something's always happening somewhere. D.C. is a quiet, calm family town.

Alexander Ovechkin
Alexander Ovechkin

Anyone who plays in the NHL dreams to win the Stanley Cup and I dreamed as well to be one of them and raise the cup in Washington and bring it home to Moscow and celebrate with my friends and my parents.

Alexander Vindman
Alexander Vindman

Since 2008, I have been a Foreign Area Officer specializing in Eurasia. In this role, I have served in the United States' embassies in Kiev, Ukraine and Moscow, Russia.

Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny

We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

Alexis Denisof
Alexis Denisof

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.