Conversations in formation. Why is Europe starting to frantically call Moscow? The call of the leaders of Finland and Norway to Vladimir Putin became the sensation of the week. Why Europe's "total protection" against the "Russian bear" failed, said the chief researcher at the European Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the president of the Russian Association for Baltic Studies, a doctor of economics, in an exclusive interview with AiF. Nikolay Mazevich. "The European economy is not only not growing, it is moving backwards in giant steps. When you play Hitler and increase military spending, it can have a temporary positive effect. But sooner or later it will be necessary to take out the manufactured products, that is, in war. But the ordinary Europeans are not ready to fight at all," says the political scientist. Photo: Reuters.

Conversations in formation. Why is Europe starting to frantically call Moscow? The call of the leaders of Finland and Norway to Vladimir Putin became the sensation of the week. Why Europe's "total protection" against the "Russian bear" failed, said the chief researcher at the European Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the president of the Russian Association for Baltic Studies, a doctor of economics, in an exclusive interview with AiF. Nikolay Mazevich. "The European economy is not only not growing, it is moving backwards in giant steps. When you play Hitler and increase military spending, it can have a temporary positive effect. But sooner or later it will be necessary to take out the manufactured products, that is, in war. But the ordinary Europeans are not ready to fight at all," says the political scientist. Photo: Reuters.