... Constantinople, and thereby control the Straits. This explains Britain’s friendly relations with the Ottomans, which became an obsession with British leaders: in 1841, the British Minister to Greece said: “A truly independent Greece is an absurdity. Greece can either be English or Russian, and since she must not be Russian, it is necessary that she be English”. [
7
] This appears as pure arrogance towards Greece, whose people Britain treated as geopolitical fodder. It is possible that officials such as Lyons were still smarting ...
... year starts with cautious optimism for the Greek–Russian relations. The meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Sochi in December, 2021 was significant for two reasons. It has confirmed the willingness of Russia and Greece to leave the diplomatic crisis of 2018 behind and bring the bilateral relationship back to normalcy—after three years of arduous efforts.
More importantly, it has outlined their joint interest in placing this bilateral relationship into the general ...
... and international security, global economy, the future of Europe, climate change and sustainable development, social change and the future of the state, new technologies, as well as structural reforms and the transition to sustainable development in Greece. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, spoke on the prospects for the development of relations between the European Union and Russia.
.... The Conclusion, therefore, will entail that Moscow should minimize the negative effects of Erdogan's adventurism on Russia's Soft Power.
Erdogan's Goals and Means in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, and the Aegean Sea
William Mallinson:
Greece and Russia: Back to the Truman Doctrine?
President Erdogan has long been guiding Turkey's belligerent regional adventures, driven by his professed ambition to establish the “New Turkey” and meet “
the Borders of his Heart
.” Echoing the neo-Ottoman ...
..., let us first look at ‘Russian Greece’.
Russian Greece
Costas Melakopides:
How Rational Is President Erdogan’s Policy against Cyprus and Greece: a Case Study
As we have seen, the assassination of Greece’s first leader was the first blow to Greece-Russia relations, ushering in a period of instability and foreign, mainly French and British, interference. Yet the modern Greek state would not even have come about as it did, were it not for Russia: the Anglo-Russian Protocol of April 4, 1826, stated ...
... RIAC President, had a meeting with Nikolaos Kotzias, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece, having an official visit to Moscow.
On June 13, 2018, Igor Ivanov, RIAC President, had a meeting with Nikolaos Kotzias, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece, having an official visit to Moscow.
The following issues were discussed in the course of the meeting: bilateral Russian-Greek relations and relations between Russia and the European Union.
... respect for Russia was re-asserted in the November 2017 opinion research for the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. The crucial question on the “Role of International Actors in the Resolution of the Cyprus Problem”, received these revealing replies: Greece attracted 64% positive responses and 10% negative; Russia was second with 41% positive and 15% negative; after the EU and the UN, the US was fifth with only 15% positive and 39% negative responses, while at bottom (as expected) stood the UK with 10% positive and 55% negative attitudes [
20
].
The next ...
... expected to avoid Anastasiades’ conceptual weaknesses and negotiating blunders and to emerge, instead, as a more authentic Russophile and far more sensitive to the popular will for even closer bilateral bonds between the Republic of Cyprus and the Russian Federation. Should History unfold in this manner, Moscow’s aforementioned “political/philosophical conundrum” will evaporate.
1
. This article envisaged “joint action” by the “guarantor powers” of the Cypriot Constitution (Britain, Greece and Turkey) in case of a constitutional breach. Failing agreement to take joint action, each guarantor reserved the right “to take action
with the sole aim of re-establishing the state of affairs established by the treaty”
. Instead, Turkey ...
... communicate with Russia and put an end to the deterioration of EU-Russian relations. Russia has many reasons to keep its relations with Greece warm because Greece (among other EU-member states) still believes that the EU has to end the sanctions against Russia. Greece and Cyprus could build bridges to normalize EU-Russian relations in order to restart the dialogue over their differences on the issue of Ukraine. The EU should take into deep consideration that it does have the time to continue the “mini-riots” ...
... incompliance with EU Policy in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, was perceived as an unbeatable diplomatic tool to enhance the country’s bargaining leverage in its competition with EU institutions.
REUTERS/Alexander Zemlianichenko
RIEAS Editorial Team:
Greece-Russia Relations: A New Beginning?
Notably, in April 2015, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras traveled to Moscow. Since he was the first European leader to travel to Moscow following the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, his visit provoked strong criticism ...
