On March 4–5, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi visited Kyiv and Moscow during a diplomatic trip aimed at enhancing Italy’s role as meditator in the Ukraine conflict. Renzi paid a visit to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, before travelling to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. Renzi also paid a visit to the place where Boris Nemtsov was murdered only a few days before, laying flowers to remember him (Thelocal.it, March 5). This diplomatic tour was carefully organized, also in these details, to promote the perception that Italy is the right actor to promote a dialogue between the various …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation