Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the European Union strengthens the course to contain Russia. Such an opinion The head of the Foreign Ministry expressed in an interview with the newspaper “Arguments and Facts”.
According to him, the states of the West continue to interfere in the country’s internal affairs and expand sanctions against Russian citizens and legal entities. As an example, Lavrov led the situation with Alexey Navalny (founder of the Foundation for the Fight of Corruption, included by the Ministry of Justice in the Register of Organizations Performing Functions of the Foreign Agent).
As the minister noted, now in the first place of the new triad principles of relations with Moscow, the European authorities are worth “repulse”, in the second – “deterrence”, on the third – “interaction”, while the latter is limited to themes that are interested in the EU.
Lavrov also stated that Moscow is interested in collaboration with the European Union.
Relations between Russia and the EU member countries, in particular, with the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and the Baltic countries, worsened against the background of the accusations of Russian special services in the involvement of an explosion in the warehouse of ammunition in Vrbetice in 2014. Russia and the Czech Republic exchanged the expulsion of diplomats and decided to compare the number of employees of embassies. According to the original version of Prague, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Bolschirov, who is accused of an attempt to poison the former Agent of GRU Sergey Skriply in the warehouse in a warehouse.