Interview with Dr Richard Connolly, Associate Fellow for Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House
With sanctions regime being present since 2014, Russia’s relations with the United States and the European Union have not been easy. Previously, the EU has been mostly in line with sanctions proposed by the US. Taken the possibility of new sanctions being imposed on Russia by the US, it is the European view that is worth looking at. Dr Richard Connolly,...
Everybody knows that the Russian leadership never makes mistakes
“It is far harder to kill a phantom ... ... most significant manifestations of this problem in Russia’s policy toward the European Union, the seven common phantoms of the Russian thinking. These phantoms were... ... fundamental reciprocal economic interests.
The Ukrainian crisis and the subsequent EU sanctions against Russia proved this perception wrong. Of course, in Moscow the European...
... somehow, gone radically wrong with the original concept of the idea’s and treaties laid down, by the founding fathers of the European Union – before and since the tearing down of the infamous Berlin Wall. Europe is under attack. And, it is not from Russia The whole concept of the EU and its original mandates are now coming under threat of attack, but not from some despised,... ... public meeting in February 2014 and then having their hired guns, pick off people in the crowd. Mr. Putin gets the blame – sanctions are initiated The EU leaders and the US admin then immediately blamed Mr. Putin as culprit, for initiating that incident: ...