The West is not ready for an equal partnership with Russia, Medvedev said.
MOSCOW, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday blasted the West for ignoring Russia's security concerns and refusing an equal partnership for years.
"The so-called Western world has been unfair to our country in many ways and is not ready for an equal partnership," Medvedev said during a conversation with participants in a Russian event on knowledge.
"We have repeatedly asked our former partners, now whom we often even call enemies, to hear our security concerns that were formed following the demise of the Soviet Union. But they simply ridiculed us in a certain sense throughout all these years, tried to wear us down and weaken us, surrounded us with new military bases belonging to the same military bloc that was at enmity with our former country for decades," he added. ■
