"No doubt now, that the end of" Cold War marked the end of the longest stage of international development - 400-500 years, during which European civilization has dominated the world. The historical West had always pushed the cutting edge of this dominance.

"The new stage is sometimes defined as" post-American ". But certainly this is not the "world after the USA" and especially without the U.S.. It'sa world where, following the rise of other global centers of power and influence, the relative importance of the role of America is shrinking, as had occurred during the recent decades in the economy and global trade. Leadership is a different issue, especially that of securing agreement among the partners, the ability to be first, but among equals. "

To define the content of the training world, there is also the terms as multipolar, polycentric, non-polar. "

"We do not share the fears that the current reconfiguration is happening in the world leads inevitably" chaos and anarchy. " There is the natural process of forming a new international architecture - both political and financial and economic, which would meet the new realities. "

"Russia sees itself as part of European civilization, which possesses the common Christian roots."

"The hard Anglo-Saxon model of socio-economic development of this new failures, like in the 20 ХХe century, the West had created many economic and financial architecture has its global image. And now, or we are in the presence of movement recognized by all the financial and economic strength to the new fast-growing economies like China, India, Russia, Brazil, it becomes clear that this system does is not adequate to the new realities. Basically, it requires a financial and economic basis, which corresponded to the polycentric world today. "

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More than a year after his remarks by Sergei Lavrov (June 2008) one thing is clear, the financial crisis has fully confirmed. At the dawn of the fall of 2009, the West is preparing to break the story through the back door, after sending its metastases to all humanity. In this world re-configuration, it is worth asking what is the role that continental European nations want to play.

At a time when the fault lines are becoming increasingly illegible, it is worth remembering that the only chance of survival of indigenous Europeans is to survive out of the rut Atlanticist suicidal and develop extensive collaboration and integrated with the Russian Federation, so that the pair "Euro-Russian" help maintain peace in the Heartland, in this new multipolar world and polycentric.

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An excellent analysis of American geopolitics, the correct view of the true interests of Europe. I wish the article was reprinted French and other European "big" newspapers and magazines, so more Europeans acquainted with it.

Author - very clever! And a decent man. Let us all together wish him luck!

The future of europe and the world, should you care to look far enough into the crystal ball of energy descent, is for countries to no longer be able to pull this kind of "king of the mountain" bullsh*t anymore.

Russia has all the makings to prosper for a long time. HUGE land mass, small population, natural resources out of the wazoo, nukes, subs, ships, airplanes and a population that isn't full of a bunch of soften marshmallows

With nukes, isn't it hard for any country to become "king"? I mean, if you've got thousands of warheads, you are king no matter what! No country can attack you unless they want to glow... probably the reason the Chinese are attacking us economically, they know they can beat us (or at least OWN us).

Russia is a cleptocracy with a shrinking population full of depressed alcoholics who die before they're 60. They have a decided mix of high tech (fighters) and screwed up (subs that have a penchant for breaking down) military hardware. They have oil reserves that are at or slightly beyond peak. They have a large landmass, most of which is in a climate that requires a great deal of fossil fuels for winter heating. Much of russia has been polluted from decades of soviet disregard for the environment. If they are going to be king of the mountain I'd say that is kind of a sad state of affairs.

Climate change may make this land mass more farm friendly soon

The land mass has been on the gun sights of "interested parties" for many centuries. With good reasons. Look at what small Japan can do with far less.

America is a kleptocracy of extremely wealthy people who work for banks and financial institutions like Goldman Sachs who have actually purchased the government of the USA.

And in a generation or two, are you thinking that the majority of us "little people" in the USA *won't* be a shrinking population full of depressed alcoholics who die before they're 60?

The biggest reason so many Russians are alcoholic is that they suffer from an unusually harsh genetic predisposition to alcoholism not much unlike that suffered by so-called 'native' Americans, for example. It has little to do with their current economic 'system' or past 'system'.

From a purely practical perspective, if they on average live only to their 50's or 60's it's past their reproductive years allowing their population to continue yet placing less strain on their declining old age maintenance social security methods.

If the Russians can protect their borders (their most important concern!) they will be in excellent shape to weather any economic storm. Russia is far better positioned, in fact, than any other advanced nation due to their huge resource base and long experience with harsh conditions. They'll be especially well positioned when they return to state management of the means of production as the economic slide gets underway.

Yes, long term Russia will be successful while many other nations will experience total collapse.

You Are Absolutely Right! ancestor did good job for your country

We survive after 1917, after 1990. Only one thing can stop us now. Full destruction of this world

Russia will do well without European
Question are, can European survive without Russia?

Statistics by Country for Alcoholism Cure Research

basically Canada have more problem with alcoholism then Russia did

Communism 2.0, huh? I'm sure Orlov would love that theory. I'll believe it when I see it.

Well, if Russia finds a lot of oil in the arctic, then they certainly will do their part to destroy the world. Not to mention enabling rogue states like Iran to push us into WWIII.

Personally i don't have problem if Iran will have nuclear bomb. Iran will never used it to atack. But this bomb will cool down some hot heads

Knock the natives out of the Canadian stats and then see what the numbers are.
Not meaning to be cruel, that's just the reality of it.