{"id":1913,"date":"2014-11-22T08:10:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2014-11-22T08:10:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T13:10:46","slug":"russia-wont-sever-ties-with-europe-but-no-business-as-usual-lavrov-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"Russia won\u2019t sever ties with Europe, but no business as usual \u2013 Lavrov \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/207927-russia-europe-business-usual\/\">Russia won\u2019t sever ties with Europe, but no business as usual \u2013 Lavrov \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">Russia and the EU are having a moment of truth focused in Ukraine. Moscow won\u2019t be the one to break ties with Europe, but won&#8217;t simply go back to how the things were before the crisis hit, said the Russian foreign minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\u201cThe 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\u2019t be business as usual anymore,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Sergey Lavrov told a leading think-tank in Moscow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\u201cBut we don\u2019t need the kind of business we had. The business was like \u2018Russia must do this and must do that\u2019, and we want to cooperate as equals,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-family: plumbmedium; font-weight: normal; color: #a00505; font-size: 2em; line-height: 1.2em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 6px 0px;\">\u2018Ideology blinds Europe\u2019<\/h2>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia won\u2019t sever ties with Europe, but no business as usual \u2013 Lavrov \u2014 RT News. Russia and the EU are having a moment of truth focused in Ukraine. Moscow won\u2019t be the one to break ties with Europe, but won&#8217;t simply go back to how the things were before the crisis hit, said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[279,281,694,1344,821],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-russia","tag-sergei-larov","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}