Follow her on Twitter The decision to put up a united European front came only after Russia had sent doctors, personal protective equipment and 600 ventilators, among other supplies to Italy, which has suffered more Covid-19 cases and deaths than any other country in Europe. Labeled “From Russia with Love”, planes and trucks bore giant stickers showing heart-shaped Russian and Italian flags next to one another.
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The penalties have been repeatedly renewed while Moscow backed separatists elsewhere in Ukraine. is an Irish freelance writer based in Dublin. Moscow, Coda goes on, has “Let’s not overlook the truly stunning irony of the above claims.Coda also tells us that Russia is trying to strengthen “Nathalie Tocci, director of Italy’s Institute for International Affairs, put it well when she Nonetheless, the Coda Story piece seems to have gone down well in anti-Russia think-tank land and has quickly done the rounds on social media. Follow her on Twitter is an Irish freelance writer based in Dublin. The sight of Russian military experts driving along the autostrada “Whatever 3rd-grade intel they gather in Bergamo, the simple fact of a Russian CBRN unit driving along autostrada in broad daylight should be a lasting image of Europe’s humiliation.
By contrast, NATO airlifts of urgent medical supplies to European allies have not grabbed public attention. While not mentioning Russia by name, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in his blog this week that the EU needed to be more aware of “a struggle for influence through spinning and the politics of generosity”. But senior EU and NATO diplomats and officials see the assistance less as generosity and more as a geopolitical move asserting Russian power and extending influence. “There are no new geopolitical scenarios to trace, there is a country that needs help and other countries that are helping us,” Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio was quoted as saying by Italy’s Il Corriere della Sera newspaper on Thursday. “For countries that would like to see the existing world order revised in their favor, the pandemic is an opportunity,” he said. 02:30 GMT, Aug 01, 2020 Her work has appeared in Salon, The Nation, Rethinking Russia, teleSUR, RBTH, The Calvert Journal and others.