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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
MODERN RUSSIA perceives itself, thinks and acts mainly as a European power. Its "Europeanness" is not related to the status of its relations with the European Union or other organizations west of the Russian borders. Being a Russian European is not synonymous to thinking that there is no alternative to the policy of integrating Russia into some alliances and groupings created in the Atlantic part of the Old World after the end of World War II and before the breakup of the Soviet Union. In building its foreign policy Russia proceeds from the premise that its most developed and densely populated part is in Europe and that for the past three centuries its political, diplomatic, economic, scientific and cultural history has been connected, above all, to this part of the world. Russia - one of the largest components of European civilization - has spread it over millions of square kilometers from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, bringing it not only to Siberia but also to the Far East and Central Asia.
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