US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at a meeting with Russian rights activists in Moscow today:
"Those of you here today understand the risks. You have seen friends and colleagues harassed, intimidated and even killed. And yet you go on working and writing, refusing to be silenced."
Yulia Latynina, on the non-invitation of opposition politicians to the meeting with Clinton:
"I don't think it would have been a good idea because the political opposition in Russia is really marginal, not because they're stupid people and not because they have no audience, but because in a society which is not democratic, there is basically no opposition."
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