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The Russia Europe Paradox.

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Why Russia is NOT “in Europe ”   Background to ,  and History of ,  the subject “Europe, Russia, and what is their relationship to each other”.    A growing source of argument across disciplines ranging from land form  studies  [ Geography] , History, social anthropology and international politics has been growing in the so-called “West”,  i.e.  those nations of the Anglo-Euro Sphere Empire, regarding how to label, name,  recognise  and refer to the sprawling, dominant, Northern Continental Land Mass, and the nations which have resided on it for the past few thousands of years.    Much misunderstanding and disagreement clearly exists, from how to define a continent, how to name one, the extent to which the subjective “interpretations” can subsume the simple objective facts.  Lately, that has been a growing trend, as one can see from the many  cases of   “ this writer goes with the such and such view ”  “ it seems to me that the better view might be ……” and t