The Unraveling of Russia’s Europe Policy
January 23, 2008 | 1940 GMT
Austin, TX, Jan. 23, 2008 – In Stratfor’s Geopolitical Intelligence Report this week Peter Zeihan discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin and his anointed successor, Dmitri Medvedev’s, trip to Bulgaria on Jan. 17. The point of the trip was to put the crowning touch on a Russian effort to hook Europe into Moscow’s energy orbit. After a touch of bitter rhetoric about how Russia and Bulgaria were “doomed to be partners,” Putin agreed to grant equal rights to the South Stream natural gas pipeline Moscow hopes to lay through Bulgaria. Yet the tension of the meeting and the concessions that Putin had to make simply to get permission are symptomatic of a broad unraveling of Russian foreign policy toward Europe.
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