For centuries, Russians have wondered if they are a part of 'Europe' and Westerners have questioned whether Russians are 'European'. Since the collapse of the USSR, economic reform in Russia has followed Western models and good relations with the European Union have been high on Russia's ...
Over two millennia ago, inspired by a sincere wish for friendship, our ancestors travelled across grasslands and deserts to create a land Silk Road connecting Asia, Europe and Africa, leading the world into an era of extensive cultural exchanges. More than 1,000 years ago, our ancestors set s...
according to 19th century professor and historian Vasily Klyuchevsky. Russia had always experienced foreign influences - but these had invariably been reshaped and redefined on Russian soil. First, it had been Byzantium and the Christianity it brought to Rus’ and then, Western Europe, with its ...
Cecilia Vega: In recent years, we've seen Russia linked to a number of attacks on infrastructure around Europe. They have been accused of targeting arms shipments, railways. What do you think is behind that? Jovita Neliupšienė: This is a challenging the-- the order, the stability of...
Russia is atranscontinental country, a state which is situated on more than one continent. Russia spans the northern part of the Eurasian continent, 77% of Russia's area is in Asia, the western 23% of the country is located in Europe, European Russia occupies almost 40% of Europe's total...
Also Russia has eight time zones due to its enormous size. Now if we ask in which continent it really is? The answer is both Europe and Asia which we generally also called as Eurasia which is made up of using prefixes from the names of both the continents. In terms of population, it...
Winter European reserves were perilously low and hadn't been restocked over the summer despite another potentially harsh end and turn of year looming. Putin's move wasn't out of concern for Europe and its gathering energy, but Russia's latest demonstration of its stranglehold. Germany's ...
Kaliningrad is the only Russian Baltic port which doesn't freeze over in the winter. For trade with Europe, and from Russia's western regions, having the port all year is invaluable. Without it, goods would have to be delivered to southern Russian ports like Novorossiysk on the Black Sea,...
George Robertson, a former Labour defence secretary wholed NATO between 1999 and 2003, said Putin made it clear at their first meeting that he wanted Russia to be part of western Europe. "They wanted to be part of that secure, stable prosperous west that Russia was out of at the time,"...
But the British too will have to find a place for themselves in the evolving Europe. For that matter, so will prosperous but non-EU Switzerland, economically rising Poland, struggling Hungary, and the once-and-future Russia of Vladimir Putin, which is not going to be on anyone’s candidate...