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The failure of two empires?

Writing in Asia Times Online of Sept. 5, Dr. Dmitry Shlapentokh, associate professor of history at Indiana University South Bend, said: The recent Russo-Georgian war was the last straw: from now on, Moscow, the Third Rome, the capital of the Eurasian empire to which all the numerous people of the empire have had a feeling of awe, a feeling that Moscow is also their capital, became a city of a foreign state. This feeling of Russia's foreignness is shared not just by the people of the Caucasus and Central Asia, but also by friendly Belarus, which offended Moscow by not supporting the Georgian war. Now, Russia is more alone, more alienated and hated among the republics of the ...

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