Looking West from Russia: The Eurasianist Folly

... Only naive provincial neophytes and advocates of the utterly irrelevant “new political thinking” concept can ignore this. So what do we have left? Russia is not part of some world center other than Europe. Only together with Europe could Russia form a center that deserves to be called “the center of power.” Currently we are witnessing Europe’s attempts to shape its own long-term foreign policy proceeding from cooperation between “Old Europe” and the United States, while weakening and isolating Russia. This policy ...