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Rebuilding the EU’s relations with Ukraine and the other countries to the Union’s east would, however, also help shape relations with Russia, which today is facing a series of strategic challenges: relations with the USSR’s former republics; the proximity of a dynamic China; the exposed emptiness of Siberia; the future of Central Asia’s energy resources, around which the nineteenth-century “great game” between Russia, China, India, and America is restarting.