The crisis in European security was caused by the West drawing a line under the previous security system in Europe for Russia, according to a Russian Foreign Ministry document titled “On the Efforts of the USSR and Russia to Establish Collective Security.”
The ministry said the West rejected a Russian draft Agreement on the Foundations of Relations between Russia and NATO, proposed in 2009. It also rejected a 2021 initiative to prepare an agreement with the United States on security guarantees and an agreement with NATO on security measures.
The document says the crisis, which it attributes to the West and which required Russia to take decisive protective measures in the form of a special military operation, ended the previous European security system from Moscow’s perspective.
The Foreign Ministry further said that in June 2024, President Vladimir Putin proposed creating a new architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia. Building on that project, Russia, Belarus, Vietnam, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Myanmar and Tajikistan announced the start of work on the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century during the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in September 2026.
The document is intended to bring together existing cooperation mechanisms, including the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, ASEAN, the Gulf Cooperation Council and other formats. Its stated principles are sovereign equality, civilizational diversity, indivisible security and rejection of the dominance of a single power or group of states.
The ministry said that Russia, like the Soviet Union before it, had never lacked goodwill in international cooperation aimed at ensuring collective security. It said all of Russia’s attempts to integrate into Euro-Atlantic structures as an equal member had been rejected, along with initiatives to create a unified legal and military-political space in Europe.
The document also claims that NATO countries and the European Union destroyed the military-political dimension of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The Foreign Ministry added that assurances given to Soviet leaders about the North Atlantic Alliance not expanding eastward had effectively been withdrawn.
Source: tass.com
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7592 | 8 Nov. 2026 | 10:49
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