With. A welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle with ukraine remaining in the headlines we have a look how russias Foreign Policy is changed since the 2014 kids and the impeachment circus continues but its anything but funny. Talking some real news im joined by my guest here in moscow dimitri shes a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander macarius he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to 1st in london. Well ukraine remains in the headlines and the 2nd half of the program well talk about the impeachment circus but lets focus on how ukraine the ukraine the ukraine project that the west has had since the coup in 2014 is changed russias Foreign Policy and its something thats beginning to worry people. In and i mean worrying people at th
Ukraines internal divisions are there reasons for optimism and impeachment are the democrats secretly scheming to have actually reelected. Cross talking some real news im joined by my guest here in moscow dimitri bobbitt shes a political analyst and editor at innocent me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander macarius hes a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com our gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate lets go to london 1st alex we have. Normandy format as theyre calling it of course this is about the internal divisions and problems of ukraine the media falsely characterizes it russia against the ukraine thats not it at all as a mystification from the media this is an internal ukrainian problem and outside powers are trying to help mediate it what is the normandy format its called normandy for and where does it come from and what is it trying to achieve go ahead alex.
2015 which was supposed to take the process further but of course what has happened is that poroshenko and hes government in ukraine refused to implement minsk the the minsk agreement that was reached vali this group is normandy for group which is supposed to be the way forward in the park way towards peace in ukraine the result is that the conflict is being frozen there was a further meeting between this group in october. Of 2016 in paris which sort of tweaked the parkway further that that has again fails to change anything on the ground but then this year weve seen a complete change of power in ukraine a new president and this is why all this group has now come together and then theres now a renewed impetus towards peace with the entire geopolitical situation change and went from answer especially pushing for exactly what exactly were the germans also wanting in better economic relations with russia with new pipelines to russia to europe through germany and through turkey and so now
A major realignment with china theyve built Gas Pipelines with china theyve developed very close police equal relationships with china chinas now become their Major Trading partner and in almost every respect what we see is that russia has distanced itself from the west its made his position diplomatically much stronger and he has succeeded in countering western moves within ukraine itself crimea is now once again part of russia nobody expects that to change their russia or is also a major player in ukraine in politics its the ukrainians realize they have to negotiate with the russians talking theyre talking about in the end what will probably be very significant constitutional and for. Foreign policy realignments but the ukraine if it is to find a way out of the crisis is well let me say yes but that. Given there is that if the us and its western allies that that have another thing i think is really important here is that over the last few days we have the European Union basically tel
Policy that turn to china and europes reassessment in theres a lot going on right here thats never talked about in western media go ahead alex well indeed we just have over the last. Period of about 10 years but it is specially since 2014 is of the crisis in ukraine i think is crystallized russian doubts about the extent to which a partnership with the west is possible and what we saw after 2040 is that there you can take the russians by surprise you can never panic with them and they will always adjust very rapidly and very effectively to changes in policy by the west and to aggressive moves by the west so what has happened is that the russians firstly adjusted their Energy Policy they werent going to let ukraine continue to sit on top of their transit pipelines and try to block or control russian gas exports to europe so the russians forged ahead with all these other part lines north street to turk stream which are birds now rapidly coming to an. End the end there being they have bee