MOSCOW. May 29 (Interfax) - Russia needs neither a new arms race nor a new Cold War but will continue defending its values, Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said.
"We categorically do not need a new Cold War or any other war, an arms race, new lines of animosity, etc.," Matviyenko said at the opening of the forum Primakov Readings on Tuesday.
"But Russia is fully determined to defend its interests, its stability, its socio-political, territorial, and cultural integrity, as well as its values," she said.