On November 11, 2019, at the Residence of the Ambassador of France to Russia, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, met with Pierre Vimont, Special Envoy of the President of France for the Development of Relations between the European Union and Russia, and Sylvie Bermann, French Ambassador to Russia.
On November 11,...
... consorted effort on reaching a sustainable peace in Eastern Ukraine. Political developments in Ukraine might present new opportunities — if not for a comprehensive settlement, then for stopping the five-year war. Given the current unclear trajectory of US-Russian relations, it looks very unlikely that this bilateral track could lead to even limited progress in Donbass anytime soon. The time has come to reactivate the Normandy Format process at its top political level. The pause in the Minsk process has been too long, and there is a growing danger that we will lose the only legitimate mechanism of managing the crisis in and around Ukraine.
Andrey Kortunov:
Europe’s ...