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The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

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

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.