The world is now on the brink of a new Cold War-style confrontation, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned the West’s political elite at the Munich Security Conference on February 13, updating the historic speech President Vladimir Putin gave at the same summit in 2007.
The United States’ attempts to isolate Russia or turn it into a “regional power” are doomed to fail, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Italy’s Limes magazine on February 4, 2016.
Russia and the United States do not need a new “reset,” similar to the one they had in their relations in the previous period, Russia’s Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak said at the end of February 2016.
Those who will rise to power in Washington soon should realize that using the language of political diktat and sanction pressure in relations with Russia will be useless, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS in an interview.
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