MOSCOW, November 12. /TASS/. The collective West tries to be ‘on friendly terms’ with some countries not for its own sake but for the sake of ousting Russia from particular regions, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.

"The collective West has its own focal points. They are normally on friendly terms not for their own sake. They try to be on friendly terms, ousting Russia from particular regions," Peskov said in the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program on the Rossiya-1 television channel whose fragment was posted by journalist Pavel Zarubin on his Telegram channel.

"We don’t think that this policy holds prospects. We know this logic and we have grown accustomed to it. But we have also learnt to build our ties in a way to hedge against these risks," the Russian presidential spokesman said.

The Kremlin press secretary made this statement in the wake of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Kazakhstan. In its coverage of the event, the US news agency Bloomberg described the Central Asian country as Russian President Vladimir ‘Putin’s backyard.’ Astana lashed out at this wording, stressing that Kazakhstan was an independent state. The Kremlin spokesman also pointed out that Astana was Moscow’s strategic ally but in these bilateral relationships "no one imposes anything on anyone or dictates any terms.".