British political
think tank Chatham House released a report saying the West should
change its strategy when dealing with Russia.
According to Russian lawmakers, the report by the Chatham House reveals the true West's plans in regard to Russia.
Vasily Likhachev, a member of the Russia's State Duma's Committee
on CIS Relations, said the Chatham House report reminded him of Cold
War-era reports, meant to mislead western governments, above all their
foreign ministries.
“Such reports discourage the western countries from doing business with Russia,” Likhachev said.
The “Russian Challenge” report was written by the Royal Institute’s
experts on Russian and Eurasian affairs, Keir Giles, Philip Hanson,
Roderic Lyne, James Nixey, James Sherr and Andrew Wood.
"This is a revelation of true plans which the
West is making in regard to Russia. Nobody is going to lift any
sanctions. They [Western countries] instigated a war for a reason, an
undeclared war, but a sluggish, information-coercive, the military part
has not fully begun yet," Russian parliamentarian Franz Klintsevich
noted.
“Such reports discourage the western countries from doing business with Russia,” Likhachev said.
“People just close their eyes, plug their ears and are no longer able to soberly analyze what is really happening,” he added.
In
their report, titled “Russian Challenge”, the experts of the Royal
Institute of International Affairs, better known as Chatham House,
advise for the preparation of further worsening of relations with Russia
and an eventual change of guard in the Kremlin.
The authors underscore the need to strengthen NATO as a key
instrument of “containing” Russia, to counter the “Kremlin propaganda”
and recommend maintaining the anti-Russian sanctions until the complete
settlement of the crisis in eastern Ukraine takes place.
The experts urge “to find better ways to communicate to the Russian people that it is in its long-term national interest to be a part of a rules-based Europe, not an isolated regional hegemon.”
The experts urge “to find better ways to communicate to the Russian people that it is in its long-term national interest to be a part of a rules-based Europe, not an isolated regional hegemon.”
“NATO must retain its credibility as a
deterrent to the Russian aggression. In particular, it needs
to demonstrate that limited war is impossible and that the response to
‘ambiguous’ or ‘hybrid’ war will be robust.”
Western
states need to invest in defensive strategic communications and media
support in order to counter the “Kremlin’s propaganda”, the report says.
The Chatham House experts also advise supporting Ukraine and other
post-Soviet republics and keeping the anti-Russian sanctions in place.
“It is self-defeating to link the lifting of sanctions to implementation of the poorly crafted and inherently fragile Minsk accords,” they insisted.
“It is self-defeating to link the lifting of sanctions to implementation of the poorly crafted and inherently fragile Minsk accords,” they insisted.
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