Russia has already made its turn towards Asia, and the important question now is how deep and successful it will be. It is also critical what forms and substance it will assume, what costs and benefits it will bring, and whether it will be accompanied, in the best tradition of Russian political maximalism, by an attempt at civilizational divorce from the European spiritual and cultural tradition rooted in the millennia-old history of Russia, the Russian Tzardom, the Russian Empire, and eventually the Soviet Union?

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