NATO chief 'surprised' by Russian threat assessment: "NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed surprise Saturday that Russia still considers the military alliance a major security threat just as their ties are improving.
'I was surprised to read that Russia considers NATO a main threat in its new doctrine. This does not reflect the real world,' he said, according to his spokesman James Appathurai.
'NATO is not an enemy of Russia. We want a strategic partnership with Russia because we share common threats,' he said, a day after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a new military strategy document, naming NATO as a threat."
