Will Russia Return to Europe?

... role of a bona fide ‘power centre’ of global rank. And yet in the exclusive company of the rising giants of Asia (China and India), which significantly outpace Russia in economic growth, Moscow would inevitably soon find itself in the arrière-plan ... ... stakeholder in the project. This, in turn, predetermined the country’s turn toward Asia. Andrey Kortunov: One More Time on Greater Europe and Greater Eurasia The second explanation is a systems one. Over this same quarter-century, Russia has not succeeded ...