Aaaand...

 ... Russians, indeed, are not coming. 

The Russian Foreign Ministry has rebranded its Department of European Cooperation (DEC) into the Department of European Problems (DEP), according to its website. The relevant changes to the structural diagram on the ministry’s page were made earlier this week and Russian media reported them on Saturday. Despite the word “cooperation” being replaced with the word “problems” in the department’s title, the DEP will keep executing the same functions as before. Its task has been dealing with the “issues of international European organizations” such as the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe), the Council of Europe, the EU and NATO. The name of the department has only been changed in the Russian version of the website. For now it is still called the ‘Department of European Cooperation’ in the English, French and German versions.

Obviously, having contacts with essentially enemy's institutions doesn't imply "cooperation". This seemingly innocuous change of title is, however, symptomatic, because cooperation with Europe can exist only on the base of bi-lateral relations, such as Russian-Hungarian or Russian-Slovak relations. Such relations are not possible in principle with Germany, France or UK. They are by default problematic by virtue of being hostile on part of those Old Europe's chihuahuas and cannot be cooperative in any sense.