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Diction on a seesaw: a report on the RIAC conference on EU-Russia relations / Part 2

... as free trade between the EU and non-WTO-member Belarus and Kazakhstan is hardly imaginable. Downright contradicting Mr Barroso’s somewhat cliché suggestion of a free trade area stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the father of Russian privatization said that such talk ‘goes beyond political and economic realities’. Switching to a constructive approach, Mr Chubais talked about boosting mutual trade, protection of investment and intellectual property, visa simplification ...

01.04.2013

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Diction on a seesaw: a report on the RIAC conference on EU-Russia relations / Part 1

... NATO missile defence systems in the direct vicinity of Russia, he emphasised Moscow's responsibility in Syria. And then came Völker Ruhe, always standing out of European leaders with his intelligence and frankness. He recounted how Mr Medvedev, as 'leader of Russia', recently told him that its capital should be moved to Vladivostok. (Uproar in the audience; and Mr Ruhe went on to gently mock the Russian Premier for his habit of frequently changing his title.) Implicit here was the argument that despite ...

01.04.2013

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