Heavyweights Go Toe-to-Toe in Cyprus

By Wayne Merry

March 26, 2013 | http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2013/03/26/a-russo-european-spat-over-cyprus

E. Wayne Merry is Senior Fellow for Europe and Eurasia at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC.
The financial crisis in Cyprus is, among other things, a stress test in relations between Europe and Russia. Thus far, neither has performed very well.
Relations between Washington and Moscow are currently in a sterile phase, and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Europeans, on the other hand, like to claim they are much more effective in understanding and managing the Russians. But are they?