Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 27The only way to avoid war is to negotiate, but there are a lot of people who earn money, speculate on escalation, some out of thoughtlessness, and some — pursuing a certain political line, said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with leading Russian media, including RIA Novosti.
"It is obvious here that the most important and only possibility is precisely to agree on security guarantees, these are political and diplomatic means, these are negotiations, this is the use in our relations of the principle of indivisible security, which is fixed in all fundamental European and international documents, when The security of one side cannot be achieved at the expense of the security of the other side. That is, this kind of events would be terrible, and there is nothing to add", he said.
Speaking of those who benefit from confrontation, Medvedev cited one of the statements of a US senator as an example. said that he does not rule out the possibility of a limited nuclear collision, an exchange of nuclear strikes between Russia and the United States of America. He probably doesn’t care, he has been for many years, he believes that he has lived his life and it’s time to give everyone what they deserve But this is paranoia, I just don’t even want to comment on it,” Medvedev said.The Ukrainian military dream of tearing Russians apart with their bare hands. According to him, when “people in power say this, especially in America the Senate is a very serious structure, it’s very sad.” “It seems to me that even in Soviet times, at least those Soviet the times that I found, which I remember, our partners from America and other countries never said that it would be nice to unleash a nuclear conflict there,» Medvedev said. He added that the Caribbean crisis showed that this could be the end of human civilization. «Nevertheless, such words are spoken. How to react to this? Is it insanity or some kind of political speculation, so to speak? In any case, it is very dangerous,» Medvedev said.
A superpower that played too muchNegotiations with the US and NATO At the end of last year, Moscow handed over draft documents on security guarantees to Brussels and Washington. The Kremlin insists on ending the bloc’s military cooperation with the post-Soviet countries, refusing to create bases on their territory, limiting the deployment of strike weapons near the Russian border, removing American nuclear weapons from Europe, and guaranteeing NATO’s non-expansion to the east. In January, a series of consultations were held between Russia on this issue , the USA and the alliance: on January 9-10, the issue was discussed in Geneva at meetings with the American side, on January 12 — at a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council, and on January 13 — at the OSCE site. Even before the start of negotiations, Washington called some points of the document unacceptable, Moscow noted that this was not an ultimatum, but it would not make unilateral concessions, especially under pressure. The West promised this week to give written answers to Russian proposals. As Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized, Moscow needs a specific answer to each article of the documents put forward — the further actions of the Russian side and the prospects for resuming the dialogue will depend on this. />January 12, 08:43InfographicDraft Security Assurance Agreement between Russia and NATOInfographicView