By Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Institute, August 9, 2012
What is the European Union going to do about Russia?
It’s a question that keeps popping up because Brussels has no strategy about how to deal with President Vladimir Putin or react to the kind of political and economic system he has established.
This question is becoming more relevant in the light of the trial of three young women – Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova who belong to the Pussy Riot punk band…
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