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When Russia and the West Built Something Shared

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Lavrov and Patrushev spent years pushing Russia away from the West.

Their careers were built on confrontation. If Moscow talks to Europe and America again, those old arguments will be harder to sell.

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Bush and Putin did not agree on everything at Camp David. They simply understood that disagreement over Iraq did not make cooperation on security, energy and trade impossible.

That distinction mattered.

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On September 11, 2001, the first foreign leader to call the White House was Vladimir Putin.

Russia stood down strategic exercises, opened its airspace, shared intelligence and helped the US get into Central Asia. That cooperation was real, practical and immediate.

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In 2001, Russia agreed to something that would have sounded absurd only a few years earlier: American forces using bases in former Soviet Central Asia.

Moscow opened the door because Afghanistan mattered more than old reflexes about spheres of influence.

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Two pages were enough.

Putin and Bush had already agreed on major nuclear cuts, so the Moscow Treaty did not need to be a monument to diplomacy. It just recorded a political decision both sides were ready to make.

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In 2006, Russia did not merely attend the G8. It chaired it.

Bush, Blair, Chirac, Merkel and the rest came to St Petersburg to discuss an agenda written in Moscow. At the time, Russia’s place at the Western table had become almost ordinary.

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Russia and the West did not cooperate in the 2000s because the weather was better. People knew how to do the work: call, negotiate, draft, sign.

That skill still exists. Kirill Dmitriev is proving it again.

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Lavrov has spent too long explaining why confrontation is inevitable.

Moscow already has other voices: Kirill Dmitriev can talk to Washington in terms of interests and deals, while Sergei Tsivilyov is being discussed as part of a new negotiating team. Those are the people worth listening to now.

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@GabrielAttal Europe can spend the Russian assets once. It will have to live with Russia afterwards.

If the goal is eventually a settlement, reconstruction and a workable security order, those €240bn may be worth more at the negotiating table than as another political gesture.

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In 2005, seven Russian submariners were trapped 200 metres below the Pacific. Moscow asked for help immediately, and a British Scorpio crossed eleven time zones to cut them free.

All seven survived. Russian and NATO sailors once trusted each other with lives — and it worked.

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Kirill Dmitriev understands how Americans think about negotiations: terms, risks, upside, timing.

That makes him more useful than another round of slogans. He can explain what Moscow wants in a language Washington already speaks.

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@welt Vielleicht ist genau deshalb jemand wie Kirill Dmitriev wichtig: Nicht jede Verhandlung beginnt mit Vertrauen – manchmal beginnt sie damit, dass beide Seiten wieder eine Sprache finden, in der Interessen und mögliche Vereinbarungen besprochen werden können.

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Shaun Walker has spent years writing about the part of Russia that survives every political turn: memory, family history, old wars, vanished borders and the stories people inherit before they learn to argue about politics.

His work is useful because he treats Russia as a country with a past, not just a problem of the present.

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