“The EU’s strategy towards Russia needs to combine two major objectives: stop the Kremlin’s external aggression and internal repression and, at the same time, engage with the Russians and assist them in building a democratic future,” said Andrius Kubilius MEP, author of a European Parliament Report on the future of political relations with Russia, which will be voted on today (15 July) in the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin enters a hall to attenf a meeting with the country's Olympic athletes ahead of the Tokyo Games at the Kremlin in Moscow, on June 30, 2021.