ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) – At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin said:
“I’m completely convinced that after the so-called bipolar system ceased to exist, after the Soviet Union disappeared of the political map, several of our partners in the West, including the United States first and foremost, came under euphoria and instead of setting up good neighborly and partner relations, they began grabbing free geopolitical space as they saw it.”
Putin said this was the reason that NATO began its march toward the East.
