The European Union (EU) Foreign Affairs Council, which will be held on Monday, February 22, 2021 in Brussels, will be dedicated to the relations it must build with Russia.
It is in this forum that the High European Representative for Foreign Affairs will report on the results of his trip to Moscow on Friday 5 February.
The Spaniard Josep Borrell went there in particular to request the release of the opponent Alexeï Navalny, whom a Moscow court has just sentenced to two years and eight months in prison, without having committed any real offense.
In front of the press, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs had lectured the High Representative.
Sergey Lavrov blasted
"exceptionalism"
Westerners who, according to him, arrogate to themselves the right to interfere, as they want and when they want, in the internal affairs of other countries.
On the same day, his ministry expelled three European diplomats (a German, a Pole and a Swedish) having
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