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How the West let Moscow down Dealing with Russia I
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International Herald Tribune
06-17-2006
The Cold War is long over. Why then is the atmosphere on both sides of the old divide so far from happy? Let us set aside for the moment the disappointing and alarming evolution of Russia and Vladimir Putin.Let us talk instead about the West as it is seen from the East ã through the eyes of those who, from the other side of the iron curtain, did what they could to destroy that curtain. The ''West'' was never a purely geograph...
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