Russia has more rights to Europeanness than Western Europe - historian
The true representative of Europe, as the heir of Greek Byzantium, is Russia, and not the current Western countries, since in the historical understanding they were the periphery of real Europe. Fyodor Gaida, associate professor of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, Doctor of Historical Sciences, stated this within the framework of the “Great Russian Word” festival, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the scientist, it is Russia, as the heir of Byzantium, that can be considered Europe.…