Taking (Another) Turn to the East: Making Sense of Russia’s Stance in the Asia-Pacific

... counterparts’ initiatives. This would assist in overcoming the inertia of bureaucracy that in no small part plagued the “Turn to the East 1.0.” Mikhail Polianskii, Pascal Abb: A New Sino-Russian Entente? Limits of Cooperation on Ukraine and Beyond ... ... such areas is the interest in relatively inexpensive opportunities to train specialists and engineers in Russia. The idea of ASEAN centrality could also facilitate the acceptance of Russia in the Southeast Asian subregion, which forms the core of the ...