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Modern Diplomacy
Published 4 weeks ago
A quarter of a century ago Russia became a member of the Council of Europe (CE), one of the oldest intergovernmental organization. Back then, Moscow described such a move as a foreign policy victory and counted on friendly ties with all European countries. However, Russia’s relations with the Council and its agencies have never been “neighbourly”. The decision to grant Russia membership was rather a gesture of goodwill on the part of Europe to acknowledge respect to President Boris Yeltsin personally and the policy he pursued in those days. Following the war with Georgia in 2008 and the events of 2014 in Ukraine, relations between Russia and the CE got sour and are currently in limbo.