The euro meltdown is presenting President Dmitry Medvedev with a strategic opportunity that he needs to seize to lay an unquestionable claim to history.
The deficit crisis has undermined the European social welfare model that provides it citizens generous cradle-to-grave services. Harsh austerity measures will lead to a slowdown or even a depression in Europe, causing massive social dislocation from the Baltics to the Black Sea.
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