SORU: aşağıdaki parçaya göre cevaplayınız
As it is pointed out in the passage, in the recent past, Russia----.
For more than ten years, Russia's relations with the
advanced countries of the western world had been a
torrid and unsatisfying mixture of unrequited love,
misunderstanding and dashed hopes. Actually,
recently there have been big shifts on both sides.
The West is no longer trying to recast Russia in its
own image. The days are gone when politicians in
the US used the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
as a foreign policy fund to promote particular
policies and politicians in Russia. These days,
Russia runs itself more or less as it likes. Its
economic growth may be slow but it is encouraging:
Russia registered its third consecutive year of real
growth in 2001, with the average income up by 5%
and at a time when the world's big economies were
sluggish. Although good official connections in
business still matter hugely, the days of central
planning are gone for good, as is the wild era of
looting and barter that followed the collapse of
communism. Russia delivers its oil and gas on time
and is steadily paying off its foreign debts.
Compared with what might have happened, the
outside world finds that cheering.