EU-Russia Relations: What Went Wrong?

... passions on both sides of the EU-Russia relationship that had been building for a long time and were bound to spill over eventually. Behind this skirmish, which was precipitated by the poisoning and subsequent jailing of the opposition activist Alexei Navalny, lies a fundamental question: is the EU really the only option for organizing Europe’s political-economic space and for acting as a moral and political benchmark for its external partners? The foundations of Russia’s relations with the EU ...