Russia in Europe
Russia is a European country, though a very peculiar one. Russia is also in deep crisis. But the situation in Russia is never as bad or as good as it seems. Those who now believe that Russia is in terminal decline are no more likely to be right than those who were predicting two years ago that Russia was on the verge of an economic boom.
Rodric Braithwaite was British ambassador in Moscow from 1988 to 1992 and subsequently a foreign policy advisor to the then British prime minister, John Major.
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