Russia far from isolated in non-West community

... held in reserve. The official strategy was aimed at integrating Russia, on its own terms, into the Euro-Atlantic community, i.e. expanded West. The G8 membership symbolized that. The other was to integrate former Soviet republics into a full-fledged Eurasian Union: an economic, political, and security alliance, a Moscow-led power center in Eurasia. Today, the first strategy is a complete failure; the second one, limited to economics and without Ukraine, qualifies as only a most moderate success. Under these circumstances, reaching out pro-actively to the non-West ...