How to Talk with Russia
... not clear enough in Georgia, that’s why they moved to Ukraine,” people would say, having in mind the expansion of Western outreach. This example illustrates the problem that Russia and the West now face. We have fundamentally different understandings ... ... humiliated. How come? The truth seems to be that Russia has never wanted to be treated as an equal partner inside the Western OSCE-based system. Rather, for Moscow, being “equal” means having the right to set and tweak the rules, not just to ...