... of the Russian International Affairs Council, Andrey Kortunov, to discuss a realistic politcal roadmap for solving the Ukraine crisis and the Russo-European Relations beyond Europe (Part 2 coming tomorrow).
ALEXANDER GRAEF: How does Russia perceive NATO’s new double strategy of political dialogue and deterrence? Is it efficient or does it reinforce images of the Cold War, thereby undermining cooperation?
ANDREY KORTUNOV: The political and military establishment in Moscow is very skeptical ...
... systems could at some stage undermine the established strategic balance. Until now, the U.S. and its allies haven’t shown any interest in developing the cooperation with Russia in missile defense, but an opportunity for the dialogue between Russia and NATO on missile defense is still possible.
The European approach to missile defense
Recently, the antagonisms between Russia and the West over missile defense have seriously aggravated. On September 13, 2011
an agreement between U.S. and Romania on the ...
... final declaration of the summit, provisions to support the further rapprochement of NATO to Georgia and Ukraine were written.
The new stimuli for the NATO-Russia relations, which are added to the "old" negative factors, are the plans for a European missile defence.
With respect to Tbilisi those were confirmed at the Bucharest NATO summit in 2008 with the obligation of taking Georgia into the alliance. In this regard, completely absurd demands to Moscow have been recorded i.e. to "take back the recognition of the independent states of the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and ...
