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What course will Russia’s development take? Assessments of likely future scenarios can therefore vary widely. Some evaluations run along the following lines: Russia is in the process of building a civil society, undertaking fundamental economic reforms and establishing modern, efficient political institutions. Russia has left imperial ambitions behind once and for all, and is following a conventional, pragmatic foreign policy, based on relatively visibly defined national interests. Another evaluation may be read as follows: Russia’s reforms simply give the appearance of success, while in fact they have become bogged down in corruption; at the heart of the system, everything remains as it was in Soviet times. Russian democracy is fragile, because civil society exists only in embryonic formation.2
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Perovic, Jeronim: Coming Closer or Drifting Apart? EU-Russia Partnership and EU Enlargement in Eastern Europe, Switzerland, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), 2003.
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Ibid., p. 32.
Ibid., pp. 23–27.
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Recently the term “free trade zone” has increasingly been replaced by the notion of a “European Economic Area”.
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Paun, N. (2007). The Relationship between the EU and Russia in Two Perspectives — Russian Model versus Strategic Union. In: Ehrhart, HG., Jaberg, S., Rinke, B., Waldmann, J. (eds) Die Europäische Union im 21. Jahrhundert. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90576-1_16
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