Will there be a new Berlin Wall between Russia and Europe?

Will there be a new Berlin Wall between Russia and Europe?

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Will there be a new Berlin Wall erected between Russia and Europe? Russia can go East, but for Europe, the only way out is the USA. EU imposes symbolic sanctions against Russia On March 1, the EU is to formalize new sanctions against Russia for "human rights violations" made with regard to Alexei Navalny.A week ago, foreign ministers of 27 EU member states agreed on a move to impose new sanctions on Russia. The list of persons, who will not be allowed to either enter or leave the European Union, will include: the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin; Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov; Commander of the Russian Guard Troops Service, Viktor Zolotov; Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), Alexander Kalashnikov. Their assets in the EU will be frozen, even though these people are legally prohibited from having any assets abroad, let alone the fact hat Bastrykin has been under sanctions for a long time already.The EU decided not to impose restrictions on Russian businessmen who allegedly support the Vladimir Putin regime, which Navalny earlier suggested himself.Such sanctions can be appealed in European courts, since Russian big business is not directly related to the Navalny case.The sanctions policy, according to European officials, may support the changes that are brewing in the Russian society. However, it is not very clear how they may support changes, given that they are based on the person that is not very popular in Russia. Moscow strips Brussels of political dignityIt should be noted that the Europeans got extremely excited in connection with the "attempted assassination of Alexei Navalny. There was a similar wave of concerns in Europe after the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, but it did not lead to sanctions. It was 2006, and there were no Georgian, Ukrainian, Syrian and Karabakh wars back then.Russia overcomes those waves one after another and manages to build up its strategic potential, even after such high profile cases as doping in sports, the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and now Navalny. At the same time, the West runs those and many other anti-Russian campaigns in a hope that Russia would soon see the events that would be similar to those that took place in Belarus in August of 2020. However, the Western attack, which started so well, does not seem to be working, which is evidenced by the visit of the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, to Moscow on February 6.Analysing the results of that visit, Germany's Deutsche Welle wrote that Borell appeared to be a student who did not prepare for the exam. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov even deprived him of political dignity, DW concluded. As a matter of fact, Borrell and his professional qualities have nothing to do with it. The reason lies in the lack of unity within the EU due to the ideological crisis.

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