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It was a rare coincidence in world politics that two pivotal and protracted negotiation processes鈥攖he European Union鈥檚 talks with Greece on managing its debt, and the 鈥淧5+1鈥� talks on managing the Iranian nuclear program鈥攂oth culminated in crucial agreements at the start of this week (July 13鈥�14). Russia was a party (albeit not a very active one by the end) to the bargaining with Iran, but not with Greece (while demonstrating close engagement); and it has large stakes in both crises. Typically, while declaring support for reaching comprehensive agreements in both cases, Moscow was, in fact, more interested in the talks breaking down, so that the EU would plunge into a deep mess marked by a 鈥淕rexit鈥� and Iran would remain isolated by the sanctions regime. However, the two landmark compromises signify a big step forward in enhancing the governability of world order, which leaves Russia鈥攁s a revisionist power that favors a crisis of the West-imposed global order鈥攓uite irrelevant.

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