He expressed this opinion in a conversation with Lenta.ru.

After February 2007, Washington, London and Brussels began to ignore the development of cooperation between the West and Russia and even hinder it, he noted.

“The early 2000s is what many analysts call the “unipolar moment”: an era in which the United States sought to hegemony over the entire globe through the so-called “export of democracy” and the globalization of markets,” said the Italian expert.

As noted in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, in his speech in Munich in 2007, raised the question of NATO moving closer to Russia's borders, the answer to which has not yet been received.