00:00Why is Russia so much in Europe and in Asia?
00:02The answer is not to the physical geography and human geography.
00:06Officially, we consider that the border between Europe and Asia
00:08follows the monts Ural, the fleuve Ural and the Caucasus.
00:11This line imaginaire divides Russia in two.
00:14Its occidental, around Moscow and Saint Petersburg,
00:17belongs to Europe,
00:18while the immense Sibiris takes up to the Pacific in Asia.
00:21However, this separation depends on the arbitrary criteria.
00:24The idea of the continent varies according to the regions of the world.
00:27Some countries count 5, others 7.
00:30In the case of Russia,
00:31its identity bicontinentals also reflects its history,
00:34heritage of an empire which has extended to the east over the centuries.
00:38It cultivates an empire in Europe and the other in Asia,
00:40a reality that influence today's culture,
00:43its politics and its vision of the world.
00:45The Russia thus incarnates perfectly the borders,
00:48the ambiguity of the geographies and the artificiality of the decoupages
00:51that humans impose on a world often flou,
00:54revealing how much our representations of continents
00:56reveal the culture and the geography.
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