... interpreted in two ways throughout the nuclear deal. E3/EU+3 side, sees its eligible effect and final outcome in dismantling weapon capabilities in Iran's nuclear program. In Iranian view, effect sought is assurance of gaining full economic benefit from sanctions relief. JCPOA will be prolonged if these two effects are met simultaneously on both sides. On E3/EU+3 side, there are defined procedures and mechanisms enforced by IAEA that could verify Iranian course of action. These verification measures ...
... admitted that today, relations between Russia and the supranational bloc cannot be called normal; this situation, he added, has been the result of Brussels' short-sightedness in its policy toward Moscow, including the policy of anti-Russian economic sanctions. The EU's position has in turn been influenced by pressures from the US.
"All this has led relations to their current state, and has brought the EU's policy toward Russia to a deadlock," Chizhov noted. "So far, unfortunately, ...
... with the Russian Federation are still a dividing element within the European Union (EU). Different threat assessments and interests among Member States risk to hamper the efforts to build up a common approach towards Moscow which has emerged with the sanctions over Ukraine. The decision not to impose new “restrictive measures” against Russia for “attacking the civilians in Aleppo” very well epitomizes this internal cleavage. This step has been the result of a strong opposition ...
The European Union imposes sanctions against Russia only to demonstrate its unity, dean of the world economy and world politics department at the Higher School of Economics Sergey Karaganov told reporters on the sidelines of the Valdai Club meeting in the southern Russian city ...
... greatest importance: restoring trade and economic ties in tourism; developing the energy dialogue in the context of Turkey's regional potential; achieving progress in issues relating to the settlement of the protracted Syrian crisis.
Lifting the Economic Sanctions, or one Good Apple in the Bunch
President Putin’s latest visit to Istanbul is of great significance for the future of Russia–Turkey relations, as it shapes the grounds for developing a new, post-November 24, 2015, agenda.
Even though ...
... attempted to convince European leaders not to accept any further natural gas supplies from the USSR (sounds familiar 1,2,3). The failure to convince his European partners left the Reagan Administration with the only remaining option – to impose sanctions on gas compressor station elements, that were produced in the US. This eventually led to a major political crisis and the sanctions were removed several months later. The Urengoy pipeline constructions continued and as a result of the previously ...
... dialogue about Syria, hoping that its membership in NATO might turn it against Russia. Voices from both the USA and Russia recognize that the common threat is the expansion of ISIS. Athens could be a normalizing power between NATO and Russia.
Economic Sanctions and the EU
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Yuri Kvashnin:
Tsipras’s Visit to Moscow and Reset of Russian–
Greek Relations
The EU should search for tools to communicate with Russia and put an end to the deterioration of EU-Russian ...
The quality of the commercial cooperation between Russian and Western European companies in the energy sector has remained significant, despite the sanctions regime. Strong economic rationale seems to prevail over politics. The German-Russian relations have been the most prominent in the region and have long-existed under the mutual awareness of interdependence. This perceived paradigm has led to ...
The Yamal LNG project has recently demonstrated that Russia’s eastward pivot may in fact provide a solution to the financial constrains, imposed as a result of the Ukraine-related Western sanctions against Russian companies and individuals. Russian, French and Chinese investors have found a way to guarantee the completion of the Yamal LNG project, despite Washington’s eagerness to halt Russian energy companies from developing the ...
... peninsula with Moscow. The last initiative made by the European establishment against the Russian Federation reaffirmed, once again, the deteriorated status of bilateral relations between the Kremlin and Brussels, aggravated by the long lasting adoption of sanctions and counter-sanctions. The European message is clear: the dialogue with Russia, for now frozen, will only be reopened in case of return of Crimea to Ukraine, an option that currently seems extremely far from reality. If the EU’s position ...
