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MORE THAN 26 YEARS have passed since the reunification of Germany, and this is a good reason to assess how much the country has increased its economic power and raised its status as a European and global political player. Naturally, studies and debates normally focus on the social and economic perceptions of citizens of united Germany, on negative trends, on risks and challenges facing the country's political class and electorate, and on suggested mechanisms for dealing with problems. Analyses of the path traversed by Russian-German relations since Germany again became a single state chiefly have the goals of finding a solution to the crisis that they are in today, salvaging positive experience that has been accumulated and detecting sore points.
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