MOSCOW — The recent events in Ukraine and the resulting wave of sanctions, affecting all sides of the conflict, have once again intensified the long-running disagreement in Russia between pro-West and anti-West factions. Facebook is full of passionate arguments as yesterday’s friends disperse to different sides of the barricade. Duels, fortunately, are a thing of the past.
But today’s social-network spats, reflecting Russia’s societal split between East and West, are merely the continuation of an old story. While many date Russia’s first turn toward the West to 18th-century reformer Peter the Great, Moscow’s ambiguous relationship with Europe goes back even further.
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Source: The Huffington Post
