Moscow monitors the policy of NATO in Eastern Europe on the subject of, not whether the steps of the Commonwealth to violations of obligations under the founding act of the NATO-Russia, said the Director of the Department on non-proliferation and observation arms of the Russian foreign Ministry Mikhail Ulyanov. "must say that We are very closely watching what is happening in NATO policy on so-called "Eastern flank" - said the Russian diplomat, quoted by RIA " Novosti ". according to his statement, "NATO is generally used strange expression" front country " like We live in a time of war. These definitions demonstrate about the fact that NATO has serious problems with an objective assessment of the emerging situation, " explained Ulyanov." We carefully currently tracked on the subject of, not whether the actions of the Commonwealth in its Eastern member States to ensure that appropriate commitments (according to the founding act of the NATO-Russia) will be violated, " he added. Yesterday the head of the General staff of the Russian armed forces army General Valery Gerasimov said that NATO is using the Ukrainian crisis as a pretext for revitalization, not hiding anti-Russian orientation. First Deputy defense Minister of Russia Anatoly Antonov said that in connection with crisis in Ukraine all the positive in relations with the Alliance collapsed, NATO has taken the course of confrontation. In January, foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the assurances of the North Atlantic Commonwealth about non-expansion to the East have remained empty words, and at the same time the infrastructure of NATO has moved closer to Russia's borders. The Minister also said that NATO's transition to confrontational rhetoric and increase of its military presence close to Russian borders demonstrate the inability of the Commonwealth to cross the stereotypes of the cold war.