Denis MacShane Dealing with Russia – if political grandstanding doesn't work, try economics
over 5 years in Standard
How to deal with Russia remains today's most baffling foreign policy conundrum. Germany's Angela Merkel, who speaks Russian, has kept communications channels open with Vladimir Putin, who speaks German. Boris Johnson at a German-organised summit on Libya in Berlin last month claimed there would be no normalisation of UK-Russia relations until Moscow ceased its "destabilising activities".
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