Doveryai, no proveryai —The Russian proverb that President Reagan commandeered in the 1980s to explain his cold war negotiating strategy—trust but verify—is an apt description of how the Small ...

Doveryai, no proveryai. This, according to the internet, is the Russian proverb translated to “Trust, but verify” in English. This proverb became quite familiar in the United States because President ...

A rhyming Russian proverb “Doveryai, no proveryai,” meaning “trust, but verify” was used frequently by President Ronald Reagan. He learned it from American-born Russian scholar Suzanne Massie. We ...

Doveryai, no proveryai” is a Russian proverb that was ironically made famous by the late US President Ronald Reagan, when he used it to describe his approach to nuclear arms reduction with the Soviet ...