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Public officials should hold private interests at arm's length and never cozy up to them.
But keeping Russia at arm's length from Europe has only strengthened the sense of isolation that many Russians feel, tempting them to define the country's interests in ways that are irreconcilable with those of Europe.
More precisely, Russia's aim is to rescue (after a long period of arm's-length support) a dictatorship that American and French authorities describe as being responsible for causing more than 250,000 deaths since 2011.