An excellent post about EU-Russia relations and energy over at Moscow Rules, including one of the most astute observations on Russia’s approach to international law that I’ve read in quite a while:
Signing a Charter is politics and can be fudged: ratification is Law and Russia, the land of signing-and-stamping stuff, appreciates the difference.
The Charter in question, by the way, is the Energy Charter. The author thinks Russia was between a rock and a hard place when it was signed, and that the EU’s determination to secure an unfair deal is going to come back and bite.
I thoroughly recommend reading the whole post.
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