Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Why Putin Would Want the Cyprus Talks to Fail

A complete breakdown would help accomplish many of his goals in the region.

January 16, 2017 at 6:30 AM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

Reunification redux.
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What has been billed as the last chance for Greek and Turkish Cypriots to reunite the island nation appears to be tantalizingly within reach -- but it might not get there without a nod from Russia.

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