UK foreign secretary says it’s wrong to talk about new Cold War with Russia

World October 13, 2016, 13:07

Johnson doubts that today's Russia can be compared with the former Soviet Union

LONDON, October 13. /TASS/. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Thursday it is not "entirely right" to talk about a new Cold War with Russia and called for interaction with Moscow.

"I don't think it's entirely right ... to talk about a new Cold War," Johnson told members of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. 

"It [Russia] is doing many, many terrible things," Johnson said.

"But I don't think Russia today can be compared with the Soviet Union that I remember as a child. I don't think it is as much of a threat to the stability of the world as the former Soviet Union," the UK Foreign Secretary added. 

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