Russia’s Changing Identity: In Search of a Role in the 21st Century
Russia’s brand of exceptionalism is not messianic. It is rooted ... ... While its western and southwestern principalities (now Belarus and Ukraine, respectively) lost their independence and were absorbed ... ..., which meant becoming part of the Atlantic system centered on NATO, and part of a Greater Europe built around the European Union.... ... permanent veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council. In Russian history, the Soviet period stands out for two aberrations resulting ...
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