LONDON — What are we to do about Russia?
The question is a truly transcontinental one, since Russia is the next door neighbor of both Europe in the West and Japan in the East, and right now it is proving a very awkward one to handle.
For Europeans in general, and for Britain in particular, President Vladimir Putin's Russia is proving very different from the benign, open and friendly democracy that many hoped it would become when the Soviet Union collapsed.
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