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In his effort to meet the demands of the creditors and Greece’s EU partners Tsipras compromised his electoral promises and backed suggestions otherwise unacceptable to his party and ideological stance.
Alexis Tsipras has consistently pinpointed the need to support the rule of law and democratic principles when dealing with the Greek debt crisis. Before his coming to power he had emphasized that the way structural changes had been introduced and above ...
... between the two countries (both links in Russian).
Western (and occasionally Russian) observers have developed a persistent stereotype that depicts Greece as a strategic partner of Russia, and in some cases even as its “Trojan horse” in the European Union.
Given this state of affairs, both countries are faced with the task of giving new impetus to the development of these relations. And this is precisely what Alexis Tsipras focused on during his visit to Moscow, both at the joint press conference he gave with President Vladimir Putin on April 8 and in the lecture he gave later that afternoon at MGIMO University. In his lecture, Mr. Tsipras stressed that Russian–Greek ...
... it is often said, resemble a game of chess. A good chess player should strive to be ahead of his opponent by a move or two at all times. By visiting Moscow shortly after he decisively won a general election on January 25, 2015, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has obviously borrowed a leaf out of a good chess player's book.
Greece and Russia are linked by bonds of friendship that date way before the current geopolitical schemes which emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War. Greek governments ...
