# Russia as a European Nation and Partner for France

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121638405763432759
- Source account: [@VolodimirZelen1](https://x.com/VolodimirZelen1)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:03
- Published: 2026-11-15
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/fr/la-russie-une-nation-europ%C3%A9enne-et-un-partenaire-pour-la-france.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france) From Moscow to Vladivostok, um, that's Russia.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france?t=5) So, up there you have the map of France to scale.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france?t=8) The same scale, okay? Can you see it? Up there, there you go.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france?t=11) Vladivostok, Moscow.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france?t=16) There you have the vastness of, um, Russia, um, and it's a partner, in my eyes.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france?t=21) Honestly, when you see that, you understand better why I think it's a partner.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france?t=25) Obviously, vastness, incredible reserves, cultural proximity, um, an ideological past that speaks to us.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france?t=34) Don't kid ourselves, they were communists, does mean something, um, to all the peoples, um, of the, the rest of Europe.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france?t=42) But above all, Russia is a European nation.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france?t=45) It's a nation much more European than Turkey, if you want to, um, go that route.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france?t=50) Well, St. Petersburg or Moscow wouldn't be, um, what they are today, um, without French influence, that's obvious.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vNLn5R9Q88Yz/en/russia-as-a-european-nation-and-partner-for-france?t=58) And conversely, a lot of things, um, in France come, um, from the Russians.