| Summary/Abstract |
Conceived in the fall of 2013, China’s “Belt and Road” initiative in the follow-ing five years became one of the most discussed issues among Russian inter-national relations experts. The discussions produced a plethora of academic, expert and op-ed articles designed to explain to society and the political elite what the “Belt and Road” initiative actually was and what we should do with it. Albeit differing methodologically, stylistically and ideologically, the articles on the whole testify to the existence of certain political discourse specific to Russia
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