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June 15, 2012

The West No Longer Exists

Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs

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Discussions of Russian foreign policy typically boil down to one question: will the pro-Western or anti-Western tendency prevail? This is an unproductive way to frame the discussion. The world has changed, and dividing it into “the West and the rest” is becoming less and less meaningful.

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