Brussels, 23/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - The EU may repeat that the Eastern Partnership is “not directed against Russia” (as Karel Schwarzenberg said at a conference last week in Brussels, see EUROPE 9865), but Moscow views things differently. In setting up the Eastern Partnership with its six eastern neighbours (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus), the EU is trying to “expand its sphere of influence”, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “We are...