Russian Federation takes countermeasures to protect against North Atlantic Treaty Organisation expansion

Despite this, he expressed Kremlin’s hope to improve the ties with the USA under the Donald Trump’s presidential administration.

While Moscow expects to resume dialogue with Washington, the spokesman added it will be a “difficult and definitely not a quick process”.

“The timing is to reinforce the need for the new Trump administration to come to the party in terms of softening or resetting the relations between the two countries”, Assoc Prof Patrikeeff said.

“One shouldn’t be a rear admiral to understand a simple thing: all current threats to European security are a effect of the USA military policy implemented in the past 10 years”, Konashenkov added, stressing that, “the Kaliningrad Region is an integral part of the Russian Federation”.

According to the polling agency VTsIOM, 46 percent of the Russian population expects an improvement in relations with the United States as a result of Trump’s victory.

The history of American foreign policy since the Second World War has demonstrated that the president and his immediate advisors can have enormous influence on the flow of events.

What does history tell us about the U.S. -Russia relationship and what may happen in the future? “We have, therefore, to take countermeasures, which means to target with our missile systems the facilities, that, in our opinion, start posing a threat to us”.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation called the Russian deployment “aggressive military posturing” and said it “does not help to lower tensions or restore predictability to our relations”.

The deployment of Russian missile systems on the Kuril Islands should not influence efforts to settle the long-running territo- rial dispute between Moscow and Tokyo over the islands, the Kremlin said yesterday. First, read what exactly Putin said in the video, which was filmed when he may have thought Hillary Clinton would be the president-elect (despite Russians hacking the DNC emails). Putin asked in the Stone documentary, broadcast on Russian television on November 21, a national holiday in Ukraine which marks the toppling of the pro-Russian government.

He added, apparently referring to the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO: “When a country becomes a member of NATO, it is already very hard to resist the pressure from such a large country as the United States, the leader of NATO”.

“We naturally support detente”. Moscow said the new relationship would be based on “equality, mutual respect and non-interference in the other’s internal affairs”.