Dmitry Medvedev said that Russian President Vladimir Putin told the same Munich Security Conference in 2007 that the West`s building of a missile defense system risked restarting the Cold War, and that now "the picture is grimmer, the developments since 2007 have been worse than anticipated."
NATO policies towards Russia remain unfriendly and opaque, he stressed. However there are real challenges and threats in "our small world" which we should focus on, the Prime Minister said, adding that Russia-NATO relations have reached the level of a new cold war.
The western anti-Russia sanctions will not bring the anticipated results, Medvedev assumed. “Enhancement of unilateral economic pressure, imposing sanctions are regrettable. Some of them even run contrary to the international law. We’ve always said that a sanction is harmful for not a country it was imposed on, but for the country that is politicizing it,” said Medvedev.
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