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RUSSIA, and not only Russia, has launched a thorough and long overdue revision of the ideas that are largely responsible for the economic, political, and cultural characteristics of the worldthatemerged after the end of the Cold War in a climate of "unipolarity" and consequent globalization. Revision of these ideas, which at first glance seem to have been internalized, is part of an effort to consolidate the principle of multipolarity in international affairs, since it is obvious that a country cannot be genuinely independent without upholding its unique cultural values and customs any more than it can achieve technological sovereignty without having its own science and industry.
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