🇺🇸🇷🇺🇪🇺⚡ US special presidential envoy Jared Kushner views the former Russia-NATO Council as a potential model for negotiations between Moscow and European countries, wrote Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, citing sources.

The White House administration considers dialogue between Russia and European countries to be important for establishing a solid foundation for global stability, he said.

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🇷🇺🇪🇺⚡ EU member states have exhausted levers of pressure on Moscow

- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin said.

It is becoming “increasingly difficult” for EU countries “to reach agreements on sectoral restrictions,” he said. “The fact that the measures adopted against our country on October 12 were not officially designated as yet another, 22nd, sanctions package confirms this very trend,” the official added.

“Under the current circumstances, the Council of the EU has managed only to expand its the blacklists of individuals and entities. This once again highlights the structural weakness of the European bureaucracy, which has exhausted its leverage over Moscow but in order to save face can no longer halt its anti-Russian fervor or begin to reverse course,” Pankin noted.

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🇷🇺🇨🇭🇪🇺⚡ The policy pursued by Bern's has buried Switzerland’s reputation as a universal mediator and a neutral venue

- the press service of the Russian Embassy in Switzerland.

“Swiss neutrality has actually ceased to exist" after the freezing of Russian assets, the indiscriminate copying of EU and US sanctions packages, and progressive alignment with NATO," the diplomatic mission said.

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