Europeans and Russians should remember what bound them together: anti-fascism | Kirill Medvedev

Russian media pours scorn on Europe, but the only progressive way forward for our common continent is together In the early 1990s Russia used to have a strong sense of belonging in Europe. This began to change: the post-Soviet shock therapy reforms were a punishing transition to a free-market society, when a kilogram of sausage cost about the same as a monthly pension and many families experienced malnutrition and hunger. The sudden shift to a more "westernised" way of running the economy left m...