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Jakub Potulski

SP 1 ’10

Sum mary

The anti-Occidental tum of Russian policy does not have to be permanent as the Russians still have a strong feeling of belonging toEuropean culture and civilization; yet winning the Russian Federation’s ‘backing’ as a partner of the West will be difficult and significantly morę costly than it would have been in the early 1990s, when Russia was ready to make considerable concessions, to undergo the process of modernization and democratization in return for being included in the ‘common European home. ’ The conseąuence of current processes in the international environment is that Gorbatchev’s vision, which became the foundation for the pro-Western tum in Russian policy, has never been further away from its implementation.