Earlier, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev "gave the prospect of creating a single European home," but it failed.
The senator recalled that Western countries accuse Russia of destroying this idea.
According to Pushkov, the West began to destroy this idea in the 1990s, when it decided to expand NATO eastward towards Russia.
This prospect of the bombing of Belgrade was finally buried, the separation of the partially recognized Kosovo from Serbia and the admission to NATO in 2004 of seven countries at once, including the Baltic countries.
Pushkov stressed that Russia did not take any forceful actions to expand NATO and the alliance's intervention in the affairs of neighboring states.
“So who destroyed the dream of a common European home, and long before the latest events?
The answer is obvious,” he concluded.
On December 6, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that further expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance would receive a compensatory response from Russia.