Judy Asks: Is Europe in Denial About Russia?

Carmen Claudín, Associate Senior Researcher at CIDOB, answers to this question in Carnegie Europe’s Judy Asks section: “It has been for far too long. The references to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime as a “strategic partner,” repeated over and over again for many years, reveal as much. As if the insistent invocation of the title would turn European expectations into reality on the soil of the unreformed Russian political culture.