(Vs. one of the older definitions amounted to "good Catholics like us, not those Eastern Orthodox heretics". I'll guess that later definitions included "whites who are not Slavs", and "on our side of the Iron Curtain".)
Neither Russia's "just look at that (Mercator projection) map!" geographic dominance by Siberian tundra and subarctic land, nor Russia's current economic dependence on the West Siberian petroleum basin make it a non-European country.
(Vs. one of the older definitions amounted to "good Catholics like us, not those Eastern Orthodox heretics". I'll guess that later definitions included "whites who are not Slavs", and "on our side of the Iron Curtain".)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia#History
Neither Russia's "just look at that (Mercator projection) map!" geographic dominance by Siberian tundra and subarctic land, nor Russia's current economic dependence on the West Siberian petroleum basin make it a non-European country.