Moscow is interested in full-fledged partnership with Washington, based on mutual benefit, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev stated in an interview with AP.
He lamented that at the moment, because of the crisis in Ukraine and NATO's eastward expansion, relations between Russia and the United States and its allies on the alliance became strained. "We are seeing a build-up of military activity of NATO, the replacement of American nuclear weapons in Europe to more modern ones, hearing hostile statements from NATO's generals against our country," TASS quoted him as saying.
Speaking about relations between the US and Russia, Nikolai Patrushev stressed that they have a key influence on the situation in the world, so "it is necessary to return to a normal dialogue, the strengthening of cooperation in the sphere of control over non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."