Seven Phantoms of the Russia’s Policy Toward the European Union

... ‘reset’ to change the momentum, but for a variety of reasons the cooperation with Warsaw ran out of steam long before the Ukrainian crisis, which became the ‘kiss of death’ for this nascent initiative. “EU leaders are like us and ... ... expectations and concerns onto other people, expecting them to see the world the way we do. In dealing with the European Union, Russian leaders often made this mistake followed by subsequent frustrations and disappointments. For instance, being strong champions of the Realpolitik approach to foreign policy, the Kremlin strategists expected the EU leaders to follow the same line; all evident manifestations of European ...