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Relations with neighbours, even twitchy ones like the Baltic states, have generally improved since Mr Putin took over.
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Further afield, Russia continues to bully and covet nearby countries from Ukraine and Georgia to Central Asia, apparently hoping to ensure that it has weak neighbours rather than strong ones.
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Europe must deal with the neighbours it has, not the ones it would like.
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She goes on to argue that the Germans do not want to be the ones who impose austerity and reforms on their neighbours.
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At the same time, it must be made plain, to whomever rules in the Kremlin, that any Russian bullying of small neighbours such as the Balts or bigger ones like Ukraine will not be tolerated.
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About two-thirds of the ethnic-Serb minority (which stood at 180, 000, or about a tenth of the populace before the war started) has now left, either fleeing or anticipating revenge from ethnic Albanians who lost homes and loved ones at the hands of Serb forces and Serb neighbours.
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The upshot of these differences is that the columns in an autistic brain seem to be more connected than normal with their close neighbours, and less connected with their distant ones.
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With rising Asian neighbours like China and Vietnam keen to invest in Cambodia, and Western ones like America and France keen to maintain their presence, Mr Hun Sen can cheerfully play them off against each other, while collecting goodies from all.
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