Power relations Russia already sees signs of breaking relations with the West – this is how the Russian media reports on the events of the Diplomacy Super Week

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Russia continues to persevere in its security guarantees to NATO. Instead, the attack on Ukraine appears to be largely an absurd argument by the Western media.

This can be deduced from the way in which the Russian media reported on diplomacy’s Super Week, during which Russia has taken part in talks with the United States, NATO and the OSCE.

At every turn, Russia has reiterated its demand that NATO should no longer expand east. Russia had expected the West to provide a written response.

Russia will draw its own conclusions if the West tries to withdraw from the security talks, Alexander Lukashevich. According to him, Russia has clearly stated its conditions to NATO, but they have not been answered properly.

The OSCE meeting began in Vienna on Thursday. Once again, the subject is the tense situation in Ukraine, which has already been discussed earlier this week in Brussels and Geneva.

Lukashev stressed the news agency According to Interfaxthat Russia is a “peace-loving country,” but it does not need peace “at any cost.”

Thursday Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Ryabkov announced that there are no preconditions for new security negotiations.

Ryabkov justified his position on the grounds that the United States and NATO were not prepared to agree to Russia’s demands, and that he said no progress had been made in this week’s meetings.

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Indeed, several Russian media describe last week’s discussions as fruitless. Instead Kommersantin Russia received important concessions from NATO and the United States, “but not on key issues.”

The credit was seen, above all, for NATO’s willingness to discuss further. Negotiations are now at an impasse from Russia’s point of view.

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“The allegations that our country intends to invade Ukraine are the fruit of the sick imagination of anti-Russia.”

In Russia, the media attention has naturally been drawn to the Russian representatives of the NATO meeting, Deputy Minister of Defense Alexander Fominin and Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Gruškon sayings. In the news, the ministers have taken a number of Russian demands to the negotiating table, which NATO does not want to implement.

News agency Tass says Grushko said that an hour and a half of the four-hour meeting was spent on “Ukrainian affairs”.

“Attempts to build security without Russian involvement are detrimental,” Gruško told the news site According to Meduza.

According to him, Russia will use all means to ensure its security – both political and military.

Fomin, meanwhile, said Russia in a press release from the Department of Defensethat NATO-Russia relations have reached a “critical low level”.

According to the Ministry of Defense, Russia has repeatedly called on NATO to defuse tensions, but it has not done so, which, from Russia’s point of view, has created the conditions for various conflicts.

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The United States Senate Democrats on Wednesday released a draft sanctions list covering, among other things, the Russian state leadership and the financial sector. Sanctions are planned in case Russia penetrates deeper into Ukraine.

In Russia, the list was interpreted as a direct attack on the president Vladimir Putinia against. According to the Kremlin, the new sanctions can be compared to the severance of relations with Russia, says Tass.

“It is impossible to interpret them in any other way than this,” Putin’s spokesman said Dmitry Peskov said at a news conference on Thursday.

Peskov thinks the threat of sanctions is very outrageous, especially now that the parties have just got to negotiate.

Many Russian media also reported on Russia’s ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov skimpy answers to the sanctions question.

“The allegations of our country’s intentions to invade a neighboring country are the fruit of the sick imagination of local anti-Russian circles. The result of their mental disorder. The answer is unequivocal: we have no aggressive intentions towards Ukraine, ”Antonov said Eho Moskvyn by.

Director of the Russian Sberbank Herman Gref commented on the sanctions issue, stating that Russia is prepared for “any scenario”. According to Gref, the United States is threatening something every day and can no longer frighten Russia. The Russian reported on the matter news site RBK.

Estonia prime minister Kaja Kallas told Reuters on Wednesday that the Baltic states have asked their NATO allies to increase their military presence in the Baltics

“If you look at the map, the Baltic countries are the‘ NATO peninsula ’, and that’s why we have our concerns,” Kallas said.

NATO troops spread to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland in 2014 after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula. In each country, the strength of NATO forces is about a thousand soldiers.

Rallas, among others, reported on Kallas’ statements in Russia, which stated in its news that so far there are “a few” NATO battalions in the Baltics.

The NATO position in Finland and Sweden has also attracted interest in the eastern neighborhood in recent days. Interfax reports Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg said that Finland and Sweden could join NATO very quickly.

The news also referred to the president Sauli Niinistö New Year’s speech, in which Niinistö reminded of Finland’s right to form a military alliance and apply for NATO membership.