Looking West from Russia: The Eurasianist Folly

... high-ranking officials the idea of a fundamentally new approach to European identity and security. That idea took the shape of the Helsinki Process. In the most general terms, Helsinki was a certain common understanding of the priorities and values of a future ... ... in the autumn of 1993 bred some very strong doubts among rather large groups of quite democratically-minded Russian society. Eurasianists who see Russia’s soul in raiders from the eastern steppes have always led their nation to danger and decay....