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CIAO DATE: 05/04
Russia faces Europe
Dov Lynch
May 2003
Kosovo, 11 September and Iraq: it is in relation to these three crises that Russia's foreign policy, and in particular its attitude towards what is referred to as the 'Euro-Atlantic community', has continuously been redefined. Thus, after a period of fairly glacial relations due to the combined effects of NATO's enlargement and its intervention in Kosovo, the 11 September attacks against America were to lead to a spectacular rapprochement between the Russian and American presidents' rhetoric, if not their policies.