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Episode 14: Is Russia European at all?

On Geopolitics

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Russia's Allies in the 20th Century

I'm looking again at Russia's long southern border, which is now a group of states that used to be part of the Soviet Union now. I think also there is undoubtedly an economic angle because obviously the Caspian oil and this sort of thing,. But Russia and Iran are both supporting Armenia. Because Turkey is supporting Azerbaijan. A lot of it actually has to do with less territorial, less economic and more just straight geopolitical and ideological sort of designs in the region.

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