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131834
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2014.
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WE ALL KNOW which states make up the European Union, so everything is clear about it, while "Greater Europe" remains so far a fuzzy idea. De Gaulle who looked at the problem from the geographic and historical points of view meant Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals. Today, half a century later, there are people who still doubt Russia's European nature. In an interview with Dmitry Rogozin (before he was appointed vice premier) a French journalist was taken aback by the remark 'When in Vladivostok I do not doubt that I'm in Europe; in Marseille, however, I'm not that sure."
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125109
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2013.
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THERE IS a fairly widespread opinion that at all times Europe dominated in the foreign policy of the Russian State and that Asia remained neglected and forgotten. This is not true. In the late 16th century, under Ivan the Terrible, Russians started moving beyond the Urals. It took Russian hunters, Pomors (inhabitants of the northern coastal parts of country's European part), travelers, military, and clergymen a century and a half (a historically very short period) to cross the primeval taiga and cold seas to reach Kamchatka, the Kurils and River Amur on the other side of the vast continent. By the end of the 18th century, Russians had reached Alaska and set up a base in California complete with Fort Ross, the strongest fortress on the Pacific North American coast. Geographic maps abound in Russian names: Russian River, Mount Shasta (the name derived from Russian "schastye" - happiness), Mount Saint Helena, city of Sebastopol, Old Russian Hill, and Russian Hill. In the first half of the 19th century, the Russian-American Company acquired control over one of the Hawaii Islands. The local princeling became Ivan, the nearest river, the Don. Russian warships reached Australia and New Zealand; at one point, the northern part of the Pacific looked almost like Russia's inland sea.
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