The State Duma explained the course of the European Union and NATO towards confrontation

The European Union (EU) and NATO have always pursued a course of confrontation with Russia. Svetlana Zhurova, First Deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Relations, expressed this opinion on Monday, May 4, also explaining the policy of the organizations.

"Nothing in this world changes. Everything is as it was, and it remains, and for them we remain the strategic enemy that they have invented for themselves. Will it always be like this? This is a difficult question even for the United States, which is trying to build some kind of relationship with us just because there is a balance of power between the two countries. And Europe has been turned against us once again," the deputy said in an interview with Lenta.Ru .

The parliamentarian expressed confidence that confrontation is always beneficial to those who earn money from it, for example, businessmen close to politicians.

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Earlier in the day, the ambassador-at-large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Artyom Bulatov, said that Western countries are forming a new "iron curtain" in relations with Russia, RT reports. According to him, steps are being taken to sever socio-economic, trade, transport and humanitarian ties, and the situation in the Baltic region reflects the general situation in Europe, which is related to the course of NATO and the EU towards confrontation with Russia.

He noted that the current situation in the Baltic region is in many ways a mirror of the pan-European geopolitical situation that has developed due to the course chosen by the North Atlantic Alliance and the EU towards a systematic confrontation with Russia. 360.ru .

Russian Ambassador to Finland Pavel Kuznetsov said on April 16 that relations between Russia and Finland are in a very deplorable state, currently they do not actually exist. According to the diplomat, Finland, for its part, has established, literally and figuratively, an iron curtain against Russia. This has never happened in the history of relations between the two states, including during the period of escalation on the eve of World War II, in the 20s and 30s of the XX century.