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Russian Information Agency Novosti
February 9, 2010


Russian security chief says NATO still serious threat to Moscow


Moscow: NATO continues to pose a serious threat to Russia, not least because of 
its desire to expand closer to Russia's borders, Russian security chief Nikolai 
Patrushev said on Tuesday.

"We have grave doubts [that Russia will be more secure due to NATO expansion]," 
the Russian Security Council secretary said at a news conference in RIA 
Novosti. "NATO represents a rather serious threat to us."

Since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, NATO has expanded from 12 members to 28, 
absorbing the majority of Moscow's Cold War allies in Eastern Europe and some 
former Soviet republics.

Patrushev criticized NATO for its continued enlargement efforts, including its 
encouragement of Georgia's and Ukraine's bids to join the alliance.

He also blamed NATO for arming and preparing Georgia for an attack on South 
Ossetia and Abkhazia, and said NATO countries continued to supply Tbilisi with 
weaponry despite Russia's protests.
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Agence France-Presse
February 9, 2010


NATO remains 'serious' threat to Russia: official


MOSCOW: NATO remains a serious threat to Russia's security, the secretary of 
the country's national security council said on Tuesday.

"We deeply doubt that we will be safer as a result of NATO enlargement. For us, 
the alliance represents a threat and a fairly serious one," Nikolai Patrushev 
said, according to Russian news agencies.

His comments came after NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen voiced 
surprise Saturday that Russia had named the western alliance as its "chief 
external military threat" in a key recent strategy document.

Russia has long resented moves by former Soviet neighbours such as Georgia and 
Ukraine to join NATO and relations between the alliance and Moscow plunged to a 
post-Cold War low after the Russian-Georgia war in August 2008.

Patrushev accused NATO members of fuelling the risk of a new conflict in the 
South Caucasus and rearming Georgia.

"We are watchful of the fact that Georgia is continuing to be rearmed. What 
for? Why? Do they want there to be a new aggression? If not, then they should 
not arm them. We don't plan to attack" Georgia, Patrushev said.

Meanwhile, the foreign ministry Tuesday sought to downplay Russia's 
characterization of NATO as an enemy, stressing that Moscow's new military 
doctrine saw NATO enlargement -- not the alliance itself -- as a security 
threat.

"The security risk to our country is not posed by NATO itself, but its... 
'attempt to bring military infrastructure of NATO members closer to Russian 
borders, including by expanding the bloc'," a spokesman said in a statement 
posted on the ministry's website.

President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday approved Russia's new military doctrine, 
which listed first among the chief external threats the fact that NATO was 
attempting to "globalise its functions in contravention of international law."
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