mo4ch:>Military & civil cooperation between Moscow & NATO nonexistent – Russian deputy FM | Mo4ch News
NATO has reverted to Cold War behavior and virtually no cooperation between the bloc and Moscow exists, the Russian deputy FM says. There are no signs the situation will improve, since the alliance is craving a new arms race.Relations between NATO and Russia – or lack thereof – was the main topic of a long interview with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Grushko, published by RIA Novosti on Monday.“Civil and military cooperation has ceased completely. NATO itself has dropped any positive agenda in relations with Russia. It does not exist. And so far there are no signs that NATO knows how to get out of this deadlock,” Grushko stated.While cooperation between Russia and NATO has been put on hold before – in 1999 when the bloc attacked Yugoslavia and in 2008, during the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia – the ongoing crisis is the longest one.Since 2014, relations between NATO and Moscow have rapidly deteriorated and the military bloc claimed there can be no “business as…