..., and the country remains a bleeding wound of Europe with a profound negative impact on the overall relationship between the Russian Federation and the West. The tragic deaths of more than 12,000 people and more than 23,000 injured remind us of the human ... ... themselves organic parts of a greater European family of nations. This is despite the fact that Austria, even now, is not a NATO member and only joined the EU in 1995, 24 years after the agreement on South Tyrol had been reached.
Neither country had ...
Russia need not concern itself about a new security architecture in Europe: eventually, one will grow out of its ongoing confrontation ... ... time in Russia-EU relations, with intense feelings of malaise on both sides.
Despite the ongoing U.S.-Russia confrontation, the NATO-Russia military standoff in Europe is still relatively low-level. While preparing for various contingencies, neither side ...
... interviews Aleksandr Gushchin, Ph.D. in History, Department of Post-Soviet Countries at Russian State University for the Humanities; Viktor Mironenko, Ph.D. in History, Senior... ... country towards collaboration with international financial bodies, the European Union and NATO. Russia–Ukraine relations will largely depend on the general trends in U.S.–Russia... ... of the question. This can be interpreted as a step towards non-compliance with the Minsk agreements. Additionally, since Ukraine is a parliamentary-presidential republic...
... come because the situation in Ukraine is too uncertain, not to speak of the active propaganda.
Today the implementation of the Minsk agreements is more an internal than an external problem for Ukraine.
The external parties to the crisis around Ukraine ... ... confine themselves to the “zero option” of holding back the escalation. Therefore the
stationing
of several thousand NATO troops on the Alliance’s eastern borders while Warsaw and Vilnius
demanded
permanent bases is largely a symbolic act which, however, provides grounds for a Russian response which need not be symmetric. Anyway, moving battalions of several NATO countries to the Baltic countries and ...
