EU-Russia ties strained over Ukraine Russian president Vladimir Putin has clashed with EU officials over Moscow's role in Ukraine, during talks in Brussels. The former KGB man received a cool reception from diplomats in the Belgian capital. Moscow and the EU have sparred on a number of topics in recent months: Russia's "anti-gay" laws; the stifling of opposition dissent and Putin's scuppering of a planned trade deal with Kiev. A last minute offer of loans and cheap gas from Russia to Ukraine saw President Viktor Yanukovich U-turn on the so-called EU association agreement. Putin had once spoke about building an "economic community that stretches from Lisbon to Vladivostok." Euronews" Andrei Beketov interviewed a top Brussels-based foreign policy analyst to find out where the EU-Russia relationship goes from here.