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Proceeding from a premise that the Russia-West contradictions have been amassing during the past years to bring a full-scale crisis exacerbated by the Ukraine turmoil, the discussants covered a broad range of issues including the feasibility of the Greater Europe project, new security challenges (ISIS and migration collapse in Europe), possible areas for Russia-Europe cooperation and appropriate mechanisms, international priorities and interests of Russia, European countries, the United States and ...
... Russian economic pressure. This scenario looks unlikely today, but then, only six months ago, many did not believe that the USA and the European Union would be able to agree on sectoral sanctions against Russia.
Increased pressure on Ukraine forecloses ... ... crisis. Such work would be incompatible with a policy of sanctions and would accelerate their lifting or at least easing.
Join Greater Europe together with Ukraine?
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Sergei Markedonov, Alexander Gushchin:
Russia and Ukraine: A Corridor ...
... European Security Treaty and earlier ideas aiming to eliminate dividing lines in Europe, see F. Lukyanov: Rethinking Security in “Greater Europe”, Russia in Global Affairs, No. 3, July-September 2009 [x] It Is Time to Pursue a Cooperative Greater Europe, ELN-PISM-RIAC-USAK Task Force Position Paper, 2014 at /en/inner/?id_4=3055#top [xi] V. Putin: «A new integration project for Eurasia: The future in the making», Democracy and Security in Southeastern Europe (Democracy and Security in Southeastern Europe),...