![]() ![]() ![]() On it, you can ride a bicycle from Paris to Moscow. To the north of those mountains, a flat corridor – the Great European Plain – connects Russia to its well-armed western neighbours via Ukraine and Poland. ![]() Between Russia and western Europe stand the Balkans, Carpathians and Alps, which form another wall. Its border with China is protected by mountain ranges, and it is separated from Iran and Turkey by the Caucusus. A ring of mountains and ice surrounds it. On the first page of his 2015 blockbuster book, Prisoners of Geography, Marshall invited readers to contemplate Russia’s topography. Would it really sever trade ties – and threaten nuclear war – just to expand its already vast territory? Despite the many warnings, including from Vladimir Putin himself, the invasion still came as a shock.īut it wasn’t a shock to the journalist Tim Marshall. Last year, Russia was at peace and enmeshed in a complex global economy. The largest, however, is that it happened at all. R ussia’s war in Ukraine has involved many surprises. ![]()
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