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Summit will be first since Putin returned to the presidency. The European Union's leadership will attempt to lay the ground for co-operation with Russia in the medium term...

A tale of spying gone wrong could have serious ramifications for those trying to hold the authorities to account. As Russia's election on 4 March draws near, the Kremlin...

Russia's leaders are discovering that what was accepted yesterday is regarded as intolerable today. Russia is not Egypt. And Moscow is not on the eve of revolution as Cairo...

Deep co-operation co-exists with deep differences. Little illustrates the seemingly unbridgeable differences between the West and Russia better than an image contained in...

In selling warships to Russia, France's risks nourishing delusions and selling short the idea of a common EU security policy. What is the significance of France's recent...

The list of questions over which Russia and the EU disagree appears to be getting longer by the week. Russian backsliding on democracy, most recently exhibited in its...

Officials from Russia and the EU are trying to keep expectations low ahead of their summit in Mafra, Portugal, on Friday (26 October). Both sides seem to agree that little of...

The new generation of leaders that is taking to the stage in the largest member states of the EU should make it one of their priorities to reshape the Union's relationship...

Failure to launch negotiations on a new EU-Russia agreement at a summit on Friday (18 May) will put talks on ice for almost a year, diplomats have warned. EU and Russian...

Munich is not necessarily the best place for a European security conference. In 1938 the then British prime minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich with a piece of...

The death of Alexander Litvinenko in London last week may have caught the headlines but there was no shortage of poisonous problems in Helsinki either, at last week's...

Vladimir Putin's tense dinner with EU leaders in Lahti on 20 October had the merit of being a reality check for both the capacity of EU member states to formulate and deliver...

Two MEPs discuss the EU's relations with its large Eastern neighbour The EU's economic relationship with Russia fits like a perfect marriage,

The war in Chechnya, Russia's attempt to influence the countries in its 'near abroad' and the clampdown on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) all have the EU asking if the...

Delivered against a backdrop of bitter arguments between the Baltics and Russia over the causes and consequences of the Second World War, George Bush's speech in Riga last...

ON FRIDAY 18 March, Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive at the Palais d'Elysée to dine with the leaders of France, Germany and Spain. Unlike his meeting...

VLADIMIR Putin has been bolstered on the domestic front by the sweeping victory for his allies in the United Russia party in the Duma elections last Sunday (7 December). But...

Berlusconi's gaffe and Putin's evasion characterized a summit based on pretence, argues Michael Emerson THOSE who have read the communiqué and transcript of the press...

RUSSIA looks certain to become a hotter issue for the European Union due to the influence of the former communist countries who will join the Union next May, according to...

Putin has best chance ever for harmony with NATO. FOR the first time in 100 years Russia has been declared a European ally - that is the most basic meaning of the...