Russia and reconciliation in Afghanistan

Russia and reconciliation in Afghanistan 

Russia has scuttled a Chinese proposal to create a peace and reconciliation committee in Afghanistan that would commit regional countries to helping newly elected Afghan President Ashraf Ghani bring the Afghan Taliban to the negotiating table.
Russia is acting in much the same way it has acted in Ukraine, rejecting international calls for peace and end to war, insisting that its own policies go unquestioned, criticising its neighbours and the West and disallowing any reconciliation process between adversaries by clamping down on democratic aspirations.