In the past year, Russia has been a decisive player in several events on the international stage — often to the chagrin of the Obama administration. It gave asylum to former NSA contractorEdward Snowden, blocked United Nations efforts to impose sanctions against the Syrian government and sent troops into Ukraine. Two teams of journalists and analysts faced off this month to debate the motion "Russia is a marginal power." One side argued that the country is squandering its full potential and its relationship with other world powers under Putin. The other side argued that, even if Russia isn't the most well-liked country in the world, it still has significant economic, political and military might that can't be ignored. The debate from Intelligence-Squared took place Oxford-style, with the audience voting on which team swayed them the most. In these events, the team that sways the most people by the end of the debate is declared the winner. Before the debate, 25 percent of the audience at New York's Kaufman Music Center agreed with the motion, 43 percent disagreed and nearly a third — 32 percent — were undecided. After the debate, 35 percent of the audience agreed with the motion, while 58 percent disagreed, meaning the side that Russia is not a marginal power won this debate.
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