The rise in support for Russia despite its aggression in Ukraine is playing out among some eastern European governments and ordinary people who may identify more with the political certainties of Russia than the complicated, messy and sometimes painful ways of Western-style democracy.
Serbia, which has traditionally good relations with Russia, has also been playing a balancing act, carefully nurturing its bid to join the EU while maintaining close ties with Moscow.
[…] even in Poland, for example, the presidential candidate for the main left-wing party said the country could not afford to continue being described as “enemy No. 1” in the …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
