More than half of workers (38 people) of the Russian delegation to NATO are employees of intelligence agencies, the media says referring to the source of one of the missions of the countries-members of NATO. "From 71 Russian delegate 38 - spies ", - said "Kommersant" a source in one of the missions of the countries-members of NATO. According to his statement, it was announced in the past year. "We were told to reduce communication, the commissioners of Russia, as if it had taken place, it is mandatory to notify about it the higher of Directors," explained the source. First reported about the print edition of the new York times." The fact that the Russian permanent mission have the opportunity to work the scouts, no one in NATO is not shocking. Reducing the size of the delegation is unlikely to eliminate the risk of espionage, but this step will give the ability to better cope with this problem ", - quotes the print edition Western diplomatic sources. Yesterday the management of the North Atlantic Commonwealth introduced a Directive in which a number of delegations from all partner countries in the headquarters of NATO in Brussels should be reduced to 30 people. Prior to that journal, the new York times informed that NATO decided to reduce the Russian mission at the Alliance with More than 50 up To 30 people. Review of Deputy foreign Minister of Russia Alexei Meshkov, NATO's decision to reduce the size of the delegations at headquarters in Brussels smacks of the beginning of the cold war. Remember, in the number of partner countries NATO is composed of 22 countries, including Ukraine, Belorussiya, Georgia, Finland, Austria Russian Federation. In November past year, the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Jens Stoltenberg has described relations between Russia and NATO is not constructive, however, assured that the Russian Federation and NATO are not in a state of cold war. Simultaneously, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe thorbj?rn Jagland did not rule out a new cold war. However, on 21 January, the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. V. Lavrov said that Moscow does not want and will not allow a new cold war. 10px