Senator of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Commission on Information Policy and Interaction with the Media of the Federation Council Alexei PushkovMOSCOW, 19 Jan. NATO continues to play its game, talking about its readiness to discuss topics with Russia that are far from the security guarantees offered by Moscow. Senator Alexei Pushkov shared this opinion on his Telegram channel. The politician refers to a recent statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, according to which the organization is ready to discuss arms control issues with Russia, as well as measures to ensure the transparency of military activities. «This is far from those security guarantees that Moscow is seeking, and NATO is well aware of this,» Pushkov believes. At the end of last year, Russia published draft treaties with the United States and agreements with NATO on security guarantees. Moscow demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further expansion of NATO to the east, from joining the alliance of Ukraine and from establishing military bases on the territory of the former Soviet republics. » /> Russia «set a trap» for NATO countries, Estonian Prime Minister said Last week, a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council was held in Brussels, which once again demonstrated differences in the positions of the parties and ended without agreements to continue the dialogue. Later, Jens Stoltenberg announced NATO's readiness to hold a series of meetings with Russia on the topic of European security, but he ruled out the possibility of compromises in the important for Moscow topics of the alliance's refusal to further expand and withdraw troops from the territory of the former socialist countries and post-Soviet republics that joined the bloc after 1997.
