Russia Is a Melting Pot of East and West

Russia has been a country that's always expanded eastwards. They have intermingled with lots of peoples, lomad nomadic peoples who lived in these regions. Lots of russians consider themselves to be tartars when they don't look eastern asian at all. So russia is a melting pot of east and west. It's more of east than west. The europeans consider rations to be part of the east. Religion is also different. It's a very, very orthodox and conservative form of christianity with pagan elements. And if you look the various conflicts that have hapened in europe, russia has always, always been kind of