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As Russia Growls, EU Goes Cool on Eastern Promises


Riga, Latvia. EU leaders meeting in Latvia’s capital Riga last week would have paid little heed to the rundown building across the street, seemingly unpainted since Brezhnev’s day, or the fading slogan daubed across its roof.
“You are not alone!” it yelled in Russian.
It might have been the mantra recited by the Europeans to six ex-Soviet neighbours at the so-called Eastern Partnership Summit, who went away with EU pledges of aid and trade.
Yet read the gnomic graffiti another way and you hear a hint of the menace of an uninvited spectator, a slogan for President Vladimir Putin’s refusal to leave Moscow’s …read more

Source: The Jakarta Globe

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