Many countries are moving away from Russia， but one is getting closer: Turkey. Russian tourists and émigrés are pouring into Istanbul and the country’s coastal resorts， snapping up properties by the thousand. Russia is helping to fund a nuclear plant costing $20bn in Akkuyu， in the south. While many countries have cut exports to Russia since its invasion of Ukraine， Turkey’s have surged by 60% in dollar terms. Western firms， constrained by sanctions， appear to be using Turkey as a go-between to export to Russia.
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中介者模式，又叫调停模式，是一种对象行为型模式，用一个中介对象来封装一系列对象之间的交互。另外一种典型应用，MVC模式中，Controller 是也算中介者，根据 View 层的请求来操作 Model 层。
代序 文化的中介者1 阿克塞尔·霍耐特 早在数百年前，欧洲思想史上就出现了一种“中介者”（Vermittler）的角色——他们或是科学家、文学家，或是新闻工作者，他们都致力于在两种文化之间实现思想上的相互交流或文化上的相互接近。
