translate English to German: Since then, Russia may have changed dramatically, but not our questions about it. What do you do when your big neighbor widens the gap that exists between its culture, which is European, and its political system, which is becoming increasingly “Asian,” at least in the bad old sense of “Oriental despotism”?
Was kann man tun, wenn der große Nachbar die bestehende Kluft zwischen seiner Kultur, die europäisch ist, und seinem politisch System, das zunehmend – zumindest im bösen alten Wortsinn des „orientalischen Despotismus“ – zunehmend „asiatisch“ ist, ausweitet?