A number of European lawmakers and politicians met Saturday with Khaled Mishaal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, in Damascus and stressed the need to open dialog directly with Hamas. 3/15/09
It isn’t just Russia.
So far, that's not true. The USA has not met with HAMAS and has not removed them from our list of foreign terrorist organizations.
The US has not adopted the same policies as the EU, the EU has adopted the policies of Russia.
Russia has succeeded in legitimizing the HAMAS terrorists, clearing the way for the EUSSR to adopt the same policies as KGB Incorporated.