Can Russia and Europe be friends, or are they fated to be foes? President Vladimir Putin’s choice of Dmitri Medvedev, Chairman of Gazprom, the gas company with an emerging stranglehold on European energy supplies, only throws this question into an even starker light.
BRUSSELS – Friend or foe, or something uneasily in-between? That’s the question Europe is asking about Russia, and Russia about a newly aggressive Europe. President Vladimir Putin’s choice of Dmitri Medvedev, Chairman of Gazprom, the gas company with an emerging stranglehold on European energy supplies, only throws this question into an even starker light.
BRUSSELS – Friend or foe, or something uneasily in-between? That’s the question Europe is asking about Russia, and Russia about a newly aggressive Europe. President Vladimir Putin’s choice of Dmitri Medvedev, Chairman of Gazprom, the gas company with an emerging stranglehold on European energy supplies, only throws this question into an even starker light.