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Jul 2nd 2009 | MOSCOW AND WASHINGTON, DC From The Economist print edition When Barack Obama goes to Moscow, he will find a sulky former superpower that no longer wants to be part of Western clubs IN 1988, when the Soviet era was drawing to a close, a Russian rock band, Nautilus Pompilius, recorded a “Farewell Letter” that captured Russia’s love affair with America: Goodbye America, oh! where I have never been Farewell forever...I’ve outgrown your sand-stoned jeans They have taught us to love your forbidden fruits Goodbye America, where I will never be. As Russia was opening up to the world, it was bidding farewell to America as a dream and a Utopia. Twenty years on, half of Russia’s people feel negative about America. They see it as the country’s second-biggest enemy after Georgia, which, since last August’s war, is also a... [read full story]
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