Travelling into the Past and Back

Over the past year politics seems to have returned to the past. But it is not clear whether it is a comeback to the Cold War time with its ideological intransigence, or the 19th century when some kindled the flames of revolutions and others sought ... ... “islandness” by launching an ambitious westward project. Georgy Toloraya takes a broader look by trying to figure out how the BRICS, a forum where Russia and China work closely together, can be turned into a platform for establishing new principles of ...