Visegrad Group Analysis in its Anniversary Year: Not Just Summing Up the Results

... shown, the Visegrad Group either delegates relations with Russia to Brussels, or persistently puts them outside the scope of their foreign policy agenda. This is perhaps why the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation does not list the V4 among Russia’s cooperation partners [11] . Against this background, Russia’s bilateral economic relations with Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic continue to develop in a fairly positive vein. Relations with Poland, however, have for many years remained hostage to the politics of their history. Three of the four Visegrad countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) have already ...