Director General of the Institute of the Caspian Cooperation, Sergey Mikheyev, told Vestnik Kavkaza about his view on the development of relations between Russia and the West.
"I am absolutely sure that the Americans constantly stir up conflict potential between Europe and Russia, because if Europe and Russia find a common language the role of the Americans in Europe and Eurasia will reduce radically. Europe won’t need the nuclear umbrella of the Americans. Euro-Atlantic integration, I mean NATO, won’t be so interesting for Europe. The political domination of the Americans won’t be so important for Europe, if it agrees with Moscow on a new structure of security, cooperation and so on. And in this case, the Americans are using the new countries of the former Soviet Union and some countries of the former socialist camp. Using its historic hurts, ambitions, mistrust and so on, they are building a new cordon. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail, but, unfortunately, tension remains," the expert said.
