... Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and chose NATO as its strategic partner. A similar drift occurred in Moldova, which lost control over Transnistria. The difference here was that it focused on cooperation with the European Union, rather than with NATO. Ukraine is acting in much the same way, abandoning its non-aligned status and building up its partnership with the West as it seeks to regain control over Donbass and Crimea. We should point out here that Azerbaijan is trying to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict positively without challenging either Russia or the West. Instead, it is trying to balance between ...
... the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s agenda. The argument in Russian political circles and part of the expert community that the United States and NATO were planning to capture Sevastopol and turn it into a naval base is not taken serious by NATO member-states, and is rejected outright by the majority of the elite. The dramatic crisis of confidence between Russia and the West that has peaked with the Ukraine crisis has led to both sides testing each other’s defence capabilities, seemingly ready to coexist in a paradigm of deterrence, discussing whether the current state of affairs represents a new configuration ...
... Office in Moscow met RIAC Board of Directors who informed him about current RIAC projects on European security, Russia's relations with leading NATO member-states,
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prospects and mechanisms of restoring confidence between Russia and the West.
In turn, Robert Pszczel talked about NATO Information Office's plans for the near future.
... attempts to de-escalate the conflict, including the Minsk peace agreement, necessitates proceeding from these negative scenarios, namely a long-term conflict with the prospect of escalation, in military-political terms as well.
Therefore, the policy of the West (NATO) will be aimed at promoting Ukraine’s position as a partner and ally and at the development of its defensive capacity. NATO's defense planning, the foundation of which has again become collective defense (from the “Russian threat”),...
... that would be quite interesting. Our observation at this point is that we are not seeing large descriptions in Russian media of NATO incursions into Russian airspace and waters. I mean we have an account in the report of the American submarine incident but ... ... might cause greater military tension?
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I think the major danger is an unintended incident which triggers a potential dynamic of escalation. Another ...
... threat. Now this idea is being fuelled, including at the latest NATO summit in Newport, although it was during those same days that Russia’s efforts brought about some chances of getting out of the Ukrainian crisis!
We have repeatedly asked our Western colleagues: is it necessary to expand NATO, probably it would be better to bear in mind the OSCE, the equal and indivisible security for all? We were told: you see, the Baltic countries have some phobias after being part of the USSR, they longed for independence, finally they got it, but ...
