It is scarcely credible now, whatever the imaginings of five or ten years ago, that Russia and most other countries of the former Soviet Union (the Baltic states are the exception) will come anywhere near meeting West European political and legal standards for decades yet.

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In that time I often talked to expats who had worked in other countries as well, such as Russia or eastern and western Europe.

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