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resident Vladimir Putin’s adviser says Russia has abandoned its centuries-long aspirations of integrating into the West and is bracing for a new era of “geopolitical loneliness.”

Vladislav Surkov wrote in an article for Russia in Global Affairs magazine released Monday that “Russia’s epic journey toward the West” is over, marking an end to its “vain attempts to become part of Western civilization” spanning four centuries.

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