Strains
between Russia and the West have plunged the world into a "new
Cold War", Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday.
With
tensions high over the Ukraine conflict and Russia's backing of the
Syrian government, 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
said Russian President Vladimir Putin told the same Munich conference
in 2007 that the West's building of a missile defense system risked
restarting the Cold War, and now “the picture is more grim; the
developments since 2007 have been worse than anticipated”.
Medvedev
criticised the expansion of NATO and EU influence deep into formerly
Soviet-ruled eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War.
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