Russia won’t sever ties with Europe, but no business as usual – Lavrov — RT News.
Russia and the EU are having a moment of truth focused in Ukraine. Moscow won’t be the one to break ties with Europe, but won’t simply go back to how the things were before the crisis hit, said the Russian foreign minister.
“The EU is our largest partner. Nobody is going to shoot himself in the foot and reject cooperation with Europe, but everyone understands that there won’t be business as usual anymore,” Sergey Lavrov told a leading think-tank in Moscow.
“But we don’t need the kind of business we had. The business was like ‘Russia must do this and must do that’, and we want to cooperate as equals,” he added.
‘Ideology blinds Europe’
The minister stressed that the tensions between Russia and the West had been brewing for years before the Ukrainian crisis. Now Europeans decided to go for all-or-nothing and play chicken with Russia. But at least the positions have been made clear, Lavrov said.
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