... Russia to reach their aims in the bilateral format. As for Russia, it keeps overreacting within this scenario, especially as the EU usually increases its advances toward the post-Soviet states when its dialogue with Russia goes sour.
Neighborhood Policy, Eastern Partnership and Interests of Russia
As a whole, the European Neighborhood Policy went wrong mostly because it did not account for the neighbors' specificities, i.e. the same approach was applied both to the post-Soviet and Mediterranean states. Therefore, the ENP practically fell ...
... Russian tendency to use the language of interests, and similarly EU inclination to mask its interests in language of norms, contribute to blurriness of the relationship. Identified in Joan DeBardeleben (2012) Applying constructivism to understanding EU-Russian relations. International Politics, Vol. 49, 4, pp. 418-433.
[7] Veronika Movchan and Volodymyr Shportyuk: EU-Ukraine DCFTA: the Model for Eastern Partnership Regional Trade Cooperation. CASE Network Studies & Analyses No.445. Warsaw: CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research, 2012. Available on-line: http://www.case-research.eu/en/node/57857
[8] Veronika Movchan and Ricardo Giucci: ...
... probably not expect a great deal of influence over its policies, the Kremlin has not set any politico-legal conditions to accession; economic integration is what it says and what it means.
The symbolism of it all
Apart from the early planning stages, Russia has not taken part in the Eastern Partnership or the European Neighbourhood Policy. Amongst a number of practical reasons, they fear it endangers their own regional integration projects as well as their own rapprochement with the EU. But let’s not underestimate the role ...
... Parliamentary elections, the opposition is clearly missing a leader and simply releasing martyrs of the opposition is in my opinion very unlikely – at least for the sake of domestic stability and effort to prevent extensive protests.
Although Russia believes that the Eastern Partnership would not materialize to the extent of partnership[7], some kind of success in the partnership, based on support of the EU to modernize Ukraine’s Gas Transit System, might take place. What is probable, this modernization can ...
