For over a year, a serious discussion about Russia’s future was drowned in the election debates. Now that the election season, unusually long and intensive, is over, it would be appropriate to address strategic issues again. In one of them I have been keenly interested for 15 years and I have closely studied it for four. The issue surfaced rather unexpectedly during the election, but I’m afraid it can be stonewalled again by an unreasonable policy or prejudices inherited from the past, by Russian slovenliness or thievery.
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