… space, with Western capitals’ insistence on the right of Eastern European states to choose …
’ with the West. As such, Russia remains seemingly stranded between East and West, unable …

… They continue this role in contemporary Russia. Should Russia be part of the East or West?
… on where he or she places Russia on the East-West axis of the geopolitical compass and …

… the 19th century between Slavophiles who argued for an original Russian path of
development and Westernizers who wanted to see Russia restructured after a Western European …

… ‘Union’ between Russia and Belarus; but Russia joined … Russia was not a member, such
as GUAM. Issues of international reorientation were particularly acute for the ‘lands in between’, …

Should Russia be part of the East or West? Russian politicians, scholars, writers and thinkers
have been discussing this question for several hundred years. While no agreement has yet …

… of mankind; we are neither of the West nor of the East," and a bit further on: "situated between
the two great divisions of the world, between East and West... we should have combined in …

… Multipolarity further appeals to the Russians because it allows them to avoid a Eurasian
solution or the centuries’ old debate on Russia’s position between East and West …

… Orientalist Mysticism and Theosophy in Russia...................... 19 Vladimir Soloviev and the
Idea of Totality ( Vseedinstvo ).......... 21 The Inheritance of Pan-Slavism:“Civilizationism” and …

… Russia's position between Europe and Asia is once again a … in western capitals in order to
press his vision of a "common European home" from the Atlantic to the Urals or in the Far East …

… that relations between Russia and the West have begun to fray. After more than a decade of
talk about Russia's "integration" into the West and a "strategic partnership" between Moscow …