London Guardian: Does it have to be about brinksmanship?
More than 20 years after the end of the cold war, it might have been hoped that east and west would have developed new approaches to their residual quarrels. But no. Obscured by a cascade of more urgent events – chemical attacks in Syria, a tentative rapprochement with Iranand the devastating typhoon in the Philippines – a particularly nasty, and very old-style, dispute has been building inexorably between Brussels and Moscow. It concerns the future of Ukraine, and it comes to a head next week at the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.