Respect for the law is fundamental for confidence all round.
Without it, all of the Russian government´s actions are suspect.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Moscow’s ejection of four British diplomats in response to the expulsion from the UK of four Russians looks like an attempt to draw the line in a nasty diplomatic dispute.
In a narrow sense, this is is welcome. The tit-for-tat gestures display carefully calibrated levels of pride and anger – but do little to tackle underlying difficulties.
But, in a broader sense, the apparent end of this particular diplomatic duel does not change the fact that Russian-British and Russian-western relations remain at their lowest ebb since the end of the Soviet Union.
The west has contributed to this gloomy situation by failing to pay enough attention to Moscow’s concerns on some important issues: the US should, for example, have spent more time preparing the ground for its controversial plans for missile defence bases in eastern Europe.
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