"Frightens not NATO, and conflict escalation in Ukraine"

Andrey Kortunov, research supervisor of RSMD: — I like an aphorism Sklodovskaya Maria - Curie that in life there is nothing that it would be worth being afraid, eat only that it is necessary to understand. Fear — feeling irrational, often leading to mistakes, sometimes fatal. It belongs and to policy where it is not necessary to work under the influence of emotions even if also the quite clear. It is clear, that at any outcome of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict on foreseeable prospect of NATO there will be very serious and dangerous opponent Russian Federation. Our immediate task — to avoid direct military collision with alliance, and further —...