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Low Expectations at the Eastern Partnership Summit

Nov 27, 2013 | 21:37 GMT

The European Union will hold a summit of the Eastern Partnership
Pro-European demonstrators, angered at Russia's perceived meddling in Ukraine's attempts to strengthen ties with the EU, protest in the Western city of Lviv, Nov. 27.

(YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP/Getty Images)

The European Union will hold a summit of the Eastern Partnership, its flagship program to build closer ties with former Soviet states in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus (Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan), in Vilnius on Nov. 28-29. Despite high hopes for the summit in Vilnius, Russia has worked to undermine the program's goals....

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