“In general, blocks are an outdated concept, from the Cold War period, from which everyone seems to be trying to move away.

This is the paradox of NATO's existence, that NATO now has no adversary who would position itself as a country or a community of countries that ideologically do not accept the existence of the Western world, the existence of NATO, as it was during the period of competition between the countries of the socialist community and the Warsaw treaty, on the one hand, and the North Atlantic Alliance, on the other hand,” he said.

Medvedev added that Russia tried to build relations with the alliance, "but we were not heard."

“They don’t want to see us, so the situation is developing according to a different scenario,” he said.