Mary Dejevsky, Commentators - The Independent
"Mary Dejevsky: Could Europe's new order be the old one in disguise?
Turkey is looking increasingly outward, but not in our direction
Twenty years ago the democratic revolutions in East and Central Europe prompted the first great-power retreat in the continent since the end of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of Russian troops, supported by generous German funding, decamped for home, to be followed by many more after the Soviet Union itself collapsed. And while imperial nostalgia lingers still, the Kremlin has had to accommodate itself to the new reality. The tentative and ragged sphere of influence that remains is a shadow of what once was."
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