A verdade é que as promessas feitas â Russia da não expansão da NATO no leste europeu foram apenas palavras. Russia olha desconfiada para o Ocidente e com razão.
http://rbth.com/international/2014/07/0 ... 37911.htmlYevgeny Primakov on Ukraine: ‘We somewhat overdid our coverage of events"July 3, 2014 Nikolay Surkov, RBTH
RBTH invites its audience to read an excerpt of an interview with former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, in which the Russian political leader, who still wields political influence despite having left office, speaks with the TV channel Rossiya 24 about the Ukraine crisis and its impact on the modern system of international relations.
The former PM and foreign minister speaks frankly about the Ukraine crisis. Source: ITAR-TASS
On Crimea Many think that Crimea was in our pocket from the very beginning. That is incorrect; we had no part in starting the Ukrainian crisis. During the crisis, a goal was set: Return Crimea to Russia. In order to do this, there were two prerequisites. Firstly, the Crimean people had to express their will for such a thing to happen. Events were already in motion that indicated that the Ukrainian authorities might try to hinder the will of the Crimean people through force. In light of such circumstances, President Putin requested permission to send in troops.
On Kremlin politics The Kremlin took steps to ensure a political solution to the crisis. There were telephone conversations with Western leaders, and contact was made with foreign ministers, but those are just empty formalities. It is not always possible to have serious conversations this way. We participated in all, even the smallest, international meetings, in which Ukraine also participated, with the goal of bringing about a political solution. However, the Ukrainian leadership blocked such initiatives.
On the possible deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine Russia had to be prepared in the event of an emergency. The goal was not just to have a Russian troop presence in southeast Ukraine. They [the Ukrainian authorities – RBTH] know that we are not deploying troops... To do so would lead to a dead end, and not only in terms of the situation in Ukraine. It would also put an end to certain trends, trends which I believe are positive, to push back from that line which the United States continues to chip away at. By our decision to withdraw permission to deploy troops to Ukraine, we will continue to strengthen our ties with those forces in the West that want to normalize relations with Russia. If we had deployed our troops, this would have led to a sharp deterioration of the situation in Ukraine, as well as of our relations with the West, which must be maintained.
A new stage in the development of international relationsThrough our behavior at the beginning of the Ukraine crisis, we heralded in a new stage in the development of international relations. After the Cold War, two parallel phenomena began to develop. One was the creation of a multipolar world. The second was a process that began after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the signing of the Warsaw Pact, in which the United States became the most powerful country in the world. That was a subjective process that imposed a unipolar world order, with the U.S. as hegemon. We have always stood against this, but our stance was limited to rhetoric. Now, for the first time, Russia has proven that it can practically solve problems that are connected with its national interests. This has led to a clash of the two phenomena.
The isolation of Russia In a globalizing world, it is impossible to talk about an isolated Russia. We are not isolated from others and we do not isolate them, not even our enemies. We have diversified our economic orientation…
On the role of the media We somewhat overdid our coverage of the events... The general tone was such as if we were preparing the country for war.
On future relations with Ukraine Our relations with Kiev will be based on our mutual interests… The main criterion is the ability of the Kiev leadership to resolve issues in a constitutional way so as to ensure that the interests of the population in the southeast are protected... They must reconcile themselves to the fact that in the southeast, there is a Russian-speaking population that considers itself part of the Russian world. We need an independent neighbor... Take, for instance, our Customs Union — are our partners truly complying with our instructions?
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140702/1907827 ... uncil.html‘Euro-Maidan’ Aimed at NATO Expansion – Russian Security Council12:17 02/07/2014
MOSCOW, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - One of the main political goals of the Ukrainian "Euro-Maidan" movement is the further expansion of NATO to the east, Russian Deputy Security Council Secretary Evgeny Lukyanov told RIA Novosti in an interview Wednesday.
"It's quite apparent that this is one of the goals," Lukyanov said in reference to the West criticizing Russia for holding military exercises near the Ukrainian border.
"Why shouldn't we hold maneuvers or not check the military capabilities of our divisions when events in Ukraine with the intention, most likely, to exist in certain headquarters in the West that need NATO expansion to the East?" Lukyanov said.
Regardless of NATO's assertion that it will not expand eastward, the Baltics, located just 150 kilometers (90 miles) from St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, are already NATO territory, Lukyanov added.
Talking to Russian ambassadors and permanent envoys on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin drew on the fact that Russia's Western partners have spent the past two decades trying to convince Moscow of their good intentions and readiness to jointly build a strategic partnership, when, in fact, they have expanded NATO and pushed the military-political space they control closer to Russian borders.
In mid-June, Russian Ambassador to NATO Alexander Grushko said the group's continuing expansion policy, which ignores equal and indivisible security, will inevitably lead to the emergence of new divisional lines in Europe.
The ambassador stressed that only by refusing to strengthen one's security at the expense of the security of others can the region attain the desirable balance.
Following the onset of the Ukrainian crisis, Grushko suggested the alliance "is trying to use the crisis in Ukraine to its utmost in order to prove its relevance in the current security environment."
Due to the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine, NATO introduced several measures explained by the need to ensure the security of its allies. Baltic Air Policing missions have intensified and additional NATO ships have been sent to the Baltic and the Mediterranean seas. NATO also declared an increase in permanent troop deployment, expansion of training programs, strengthening of early warning systems and improving the capacity of response forces.
