MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. Russia remembers very well how the Western countries supported terrorists in the North Caucasus in the 1990s, and now it sees well enough how the West is building "the Russophobic project of Banderite Ukrainian Nazism," Alexey Drobinin, the Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s foreign policy planning department, said in an interview with the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies’ magazine Problems of National Strategy, published on Monday.
"In Russia, we remember well how the West supported terrorists in the North Caucasus in the 1990s, and we see how it has raised and keeps nurturing the Russophobic project of Bandera's Ukrainian Nazism," he said.
Drobinin doubts whether the Western countries remember that "traditional moral and spiritual values" are common to all civilizations. The diplomat also expressed the certainty that crises and decline are inevitable in case of a departure from them.
"Examples of this in history are many," he said.
Drobinin explained Moscow’s viewpoint as to how to correct this state of affairs.
"The solution is to work with like-minded partners to try to shape a global agenda, to raise crucial problems that are important to us and consonant with the interests of most countries, to jointly and constructively look for ways to solve them and to work for strengthening international legal principles in interstate relations," he added.
Drobinin drew attention to the fact that keeping a distance from the Western bloc would give Russia an opportunity to build "extensive cooperation with other major civilizational platforms - Chinese, Arab-Muslim, Indo-South Asian, African, and Latin American, and the geopolitical region of ASEAN."
"It is there that we can find the largest number of our like-minded partners and friends," he concluded.