Russia’s Changing Identity: In Search of a Role in the 21st Century
Russia’s brand of exceptionalism is not messianic. It is rooted in the isolation of an Orthodox country and its belief that ... ... likely to continue in the future. The early Russian state—ancient Rus, or Kievan Rus, after its capital city—was an Eastern European country of multiple Slavic tribes ruled by an extended family of Viking princes. It became the easternmost bulwark of ...
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