Starting at least from the Great Northern War (1700-1721) and to the end of the Cold War Russia and the Soviet Union were part and parcel of the European system of military-political coalitions and alliances.
These coalitions were fluid; they were done and undone, but usually, in one of them, there was always a place for Russia. The...
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Arkady Moshes is the programme director for Russia, EU's Eastern Neighbourhood and Eurasia at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki.