Russian Quotes



Allen had expressed the concern of the United States that Egypt had purchased Russian arms and was falling into the Russian camp in the Cold War. The United States could not sell arms to Egypt because they wanted to use them to attack Israel.


Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a great scientist who had created the famous Periodic Table of the Elements. He was also the major science advisor to the Czar and his government. He had been divorced but had not waited the required 7 years before remarrying. Therefore according to Russian religious law at the time, he was legally a bigamist, and could not hold a position in the government and should be prosecuted. A complaint was made to the Czar and this was his reply. There are a few scholars who do not feel this quotation was documented well enough to be accepted.


The Russians did come shortly thereafter in 2000. They captured Salman Raduyev, who regretted his challenge.