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Russia: Powers in the balance (ft.com)
Sun Jul 05, 2015 9:52 pm
The Kremlin wants to rewrite Europe’s security order as a bulwark against Nato, while wooing China.
When top US, European and Russian officials gathered beneath the gilded chandeliers of a baroque Vienna palace last month to discuss European security after the Ukraine crisis, the ghosts of history were watching.
Two centuries earlier in salons like these, statesmen from Europe’s great powers met in the 1815 Congress of Vienna — the first big attempt to agree treaties designed to ensure transcontinental peace, after the defeat of Napoleonic France. A year after Russia annexed Crimea and invaded east Ukraine, Moscow diplomats have now proposed a new Vienna congress to boost stability on the continent.............
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When top US, European and Russian officials gathered beneath the gilded chandeliers of a baroque Vienna palace last month to discuss European security after the Ukraine crisis, the ghosts of history were watching.
Two centuries earlier in salons like these, statesmen from Europe’s great powers met in the 1815 Congress of Vienna — the first big attempt to agree treaties designed to ensure transcontinental peace, after the defeat of Napoleonic France. A year after Russia annexed Crimea and invaded east Ukraine, Moscow diplomats have now proposed a new Vienna congress to boost stability on the continent.............
Read further at link: ft.com
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