Medvedev criticised the expansion of NATO and EU influence deep into formerly Soviet-ruled Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War.
Medvedev criticised the expansion of NATO and EU influence deep into formerly Soviet-ruled Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday that strains between Russia and the West have plunged the world into a -"new Cold War-".
With tensions high over the Ukraine conflict and Russia's backing of the Syrian regime, Medvedev said: -"All that's left is an unfriendly policy of NATO against Russia-".
-"We can say it even more clearly: We have slid into a new period of Cold War,-" he said, speaking at the Munich Security Conference.
-"Almost every day we are accused of making new horrible threats either against NATO as a whole, against Europe or against the US or other countries.-"
Medvedev criticised the expansion of NATO and EU influence deep into formerly Soviet-ruled Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War.
-"European politicians thought that creating a so-called belt of friends at Europe's side, on the outskirts of the EU, could be a guarantee of security, and what's the result -" he said.
-"Not a belt of friends but a belt of exclusion.-"
He added that -"creating trust is hard but we have to start. Our positions differ, but they do not differ as much as 40 years ago when a wall was standing in Europe.-"
