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NEVER BEFORE has the term "Russophobia" been as widely and routinely used as it is today. Emerging in Europe in the 1830s, it denoted a phenomenon much older than itself. Strictly speaking, there was and is nothing phenomenal about this phenomenon in its traditional understanding as a special dislike for Russia and Russians. It just so happens that there is no love between states and peoples because this is unnatural for them and has no grounds. To compete, fight, ally, cooperate, trade, borrow, envy, despise, hate - anything but to love.
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