The decision by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to readmit the Russian delegation to PACE without any preconditions is a serious, I would say even a historic, defeat for the West, especially since Russia was the first country in the new millennium to violate international law and annex another’s territory by force. But let us not deceive ourselves. This is not only a defeat for the West It is also a serious defeat for the Ukrainian state. Naturally, there are those who will characterize it as a failure of diplomacy. But when a state loses, when defeat is the choice of an entire nation, diplomacy turns out to be powerless.
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Stalin's era skyscrapers, build from 1947 to 1953, are seen in Moscow on June 1, 2019.
