Russia's policy forces the Alliance to start considering the country not as a partner but as a rival, said on Thursday Deputy Secretary General of NATO Alexander Vershbow. " Clearly, Russia declared NATO's enemy, for this reason, we must begin to consider Russian Federation now not as a partner but more as an enemy than a partner, " said Vershbow, quoted by RIA " news " referring to the Associated Press. According to him, Russia's Policy on Ukraine radically affected the relations between NATO and Russia. In connection with the political crisis in Ukraine, NATO has increased its air defense mission in the Baltic countries. In Lithuania, for this purpose there are four Polish MiG-29 and four British Typhoon. In early April, NATO took the decision to simultaneous placing fighters allies in Estonia at the airbase ?mari airbase, which previously never been, although Tallinn did this for years. By the end of March, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that the events in Ukraine have the opportunity to lead to changes in the approach of the North Atlantic Commonwealth to the admission of new members. For example, Rasmussen said that NATO will continue to expand to the East and strengthen its presence in the member States of the Commonwealth in Eastern Europe. The head the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century said that Moscow expects from NATO obyasneniya about plans in Eastern Europe.
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