POST: France, Russia and the EU, By Judah Grunstein, World Politics Review Blog, 13 Mar 2008

POST: Russia's European Courtship, By Judah Grunstein, World Politics Review Blog, 15 Mar 2008

Remember Trenin's piece: Moscow's view of global economy pretty much the same as ours and it's not afraid to use force in crises.

This should be a beautiful relationship on that basis alone.

Note also the fixed rotary: long pole in the SysAdmin tent.

(Thanks: Vadim Frenkel)