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THE CURRENT STAGE of Russia's pivot to the East is the product of the second half of the 2000s largely as a belated economic response to the rise of Asia, which opened new opportunities for the country's development, especially for it eastern part. That rise made it possible to turn the Ural region and the Russian Far East from a mainly imperial burden - or a logistics base in confrontation with the West, sometimes a front line in rivalry with Japan or China - into a potential territory of development for the entire country.
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