Senator Alexei Pushkov MOSCOW, Jan 8 Senator Alexei Pushkov commented on his comments on his Telegram channel US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on NATO's eastward expansion, questioning his knowledge of history. As Blinken said earlier, the words that the alliance promised not to expand are «false.» He also called the «narrative that NATO threatens Russia» as false. 
NATO Secretary General considers the danger of a «conflict» in Europe over Ukraine real «Blinken knows little history. Before the unification of Germany, which was then a top priority for the United States and their President Bush, Blinken's predecessor, US Secretary of State James Baker told Gorbachev and Shevardnadze, that in the event of German reunification, the United States was ready to pledge that NATO «would not move an inch east,» Pushkov noted. In his opinion, the former Soviet leader made a «strategic miscalculation» by not obliging the United States and Germany to fix this on paper «It is for this reason that Russia is now demanding legally binding and fixed guarantees: the words of the former Western leaders are of little value. The new ones prefer not to remember them. This is once again proved by Blinken's statement,» the senator concluded. Russia in the draft agreement on security guarantees with NATO proposes to exclude further expansion of the alliance and the accession of Ukraine to it, to abandon military activities on the territory Oriya of Ukraine and other countries of Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. As of May 1997, Russia and NATO members should abandon the deployment of forces and weapons on the territory of other European countries in addition to the forces that were there at that time. In addition to the draft agreement with NATO, Russia in December also proposed its own version of the agreement on security guarantees with the USA. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told RIA Novosti that if NATO and the United States do not respond to Moscow's demands for security guarantees, this could lead to a new round of confrontation. Russian-American talks on strategic stability and security issues will take place in Geneva on January 10, followed by meetings of the NATO-Russia Council and the OSCE. 
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