Text taken from a Telegram post by by A.Yu. Drobinin, Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on medium-term and long-term changes and priorities in Russia's foreign policy.
[ColonelCassad] It so happened that our country is again experiencing a turning point in its more than a thousand-year history. We have to deal with the aggressive reaction of some external players to absolutely justified actions to protect vital interests in the western direction. A man-made crisis of European security and the entire international order, formed as a result of the Second World War, arose.