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Josep Borrell cannot make any trade-offs and needs to react to this critical deterioration of democracy and human rights loudly and clearly (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Here's what Borrell must say and do in Moscow

On Thursday (4 February) the EU's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy Josep Borrell is going to start his two-day-long programme in the Russian Federation.

And the visit has already come under fire, for example from the European Parliament, for a mix of its problematic timing, the ultimate goal of the mission, and lack of clarity or concrete agenda and meetings that will take place in Moscow.

Many fear that the EU's foreign affairs chief is going to Moscow...

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Pavel Havlicek is a research fellow at Association for International Affairs in Prague and Russia research coordinator at MapInfluenCE project. He is also a board member at the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum.

Josep Borrell cannot make any trade-offs and needs to react to this critical deterioration of democracy and human rights loudly and clearly (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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Pavel Havlicek is a research fellow at Association for International Affairs in Prague and Russia research coordinator at MapInfluenCE project. He is also a board member at the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum.

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