We worship with brotherly love and affection the great tribes that inhabit it and All the great and glorious achievements they have achieved. Do you know how many tears we have shed for the fate of this beloved land, this home? Beating for the fate of this home, as the looming dark clouds on the horizon fill us with fear. The writings of contemporary pro-Kremlin intellectuals lack this sentiment. For Dmitry Trenin, director of the Carnegie Center in Moscow, Europe is no longer sacred or even a friend of the motherland. For Russia today it is just one of many neighboring countries, part of the great Eurasian landmass stretching from Ireland to Japan.

The idea of a strategic goal of close cooperation and Phone Number List political alliance with European development, which in the 1990s still fascinated Russian liberal intellectuals and politicians, is now considered unfeasible and even harmful. Russia's progress is no longer tied to its European roots. Prominent Moscow analyst Timofey Bordashev believes that it is impossible to move forward without betraying an important part of our own tradition, which perhaps includes the European identity of the Russian state at its core. . Europe is thought to have run dry as a source of innovation. We got everything we needed from.



 Europe long ago, Karaganov and other like-minded political analysts calmly and dispassionately observed. Everything else they say either we already have or it's just unachievable because we can't handle it. From a historical perspective Russia is a dictatorship. It’s time to stop being ashamed of the fact that we are historically associated with authoritarian systems of government rather than liberal democracies. Ultimately that's what it's all about.  are worried not about a cuckoo produced for domestic consumption but about the EU's fundamental political ideals and values of human dignity and freedom, the rule of law, democracy and tolerance.