Almost every government within the EU could be described as right wing (in European terms). The significant point is the state structure that enables them to govern permits their periodic replacement without generating an existential crisis of the existing state form. It takes no great genius to predict that within a decade or so most of these countries will have left of center governments( the current collapse of capitalist markets is a direct consequence of the political rule that has permitted only rightward shifts in the EU ). Well that's the EU but what of Russia? Will the left wing opposition in Russia consolidate into a Social Democratic party? And if it does will it ever be able to win power? When (and if) these two questions are answered affirmatively the political division between Europe and Russia will have passed into history. And I for one expect it to pass away. But its up to the Russian people to make that decisions in their own time.