"Today the foundations of international relations are being put to the hardest test … Let's look at what happened at the beginning of the year in Latin America, Venezuela, and what is happening now in the Middle East," Lavrov said.
The crisis in Ukraine, which the West tried to "artificially create in order, as it claimed, to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia," now serves chiefly as a pretext for Europeans to forge a new alliance on the western edge of the Eurasian continent, with the clear intent of directing it against Moscow, the foreign minister said.
As for the eastern flank of the Eurasian continent, "very, very dangerous games" persist here either, he said.