Seven Phantoms of the Russia’s Policy Toward the European Union

... mistake followed by subsequent frustrations and disappointments. For instance, being strong champions of the Realpolitik approach to foreign policy, the Kremlin strategists expected the EU leaders to follow the same line; all evident manifestations of European foreign policy liberalism were routinely ridiculed as phony rhetoric or pure hypocrisy. In the West there are tons of literature on the KGB career of Vladimir Putin and on how this career influenced his world outlook, but only very few experts in Moscow ...