{"id":2989,"date":"2026-04-04T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/2989\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:18:08","slug":"russia-sees-signs-of-crisis-in-nato-eu-lavrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/2989\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Sees Signs of Crisis in NATO, EU: Lavrov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1272661\/russia-sees-signs-of-crisis-in-nato-eu-lavrov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/n01272661-b.jpg\" alt=\"Russia Sees Signs of Crisis in NATO, EU: Lavrov\" title=\"Russia Sees Signs of Crisis in NATO, EU: Lavrov\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov highlighted a brewing crisis within the North Atlantic Alliance and the European Union during a meeting with Nurlan Yermekbayev, Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).&#8221;We observe signs of a crisis in both the North Atlantic Alliance and the European Union,&#8221; Lavrov stated, TASS reported.<\/p>\n<p>He remarked on Western countries&#8217; approach to non-Western organizations, referencing a line from the film A Cruel Romance, based on Alexander Ostrovsky&#8217;s play Without a Dowry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Western colleagues seem to believe that, because they are in crisis, they must impose this crisis on non-Western associations &#8211; echoing the words from the film: &#8216;Don&#8217;t let anyone have you!'&#8221; Lavrov said, implying that Western policies aim to exert influence over other regions in times of turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded with a veiled critique of Western diplomacy, stating, &#8220;Multilateral diplomacy and the multilateral construction of a new world,&#8221; with a tone tinged with irony.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov highlighted a brewing crisis within the North Atlantic Alliance and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,2386,2387,2385,2381,2398,2372,2390,671,2388,2377,2396,2380,2373,2374,852,2391,2378,340,2384,2393,2371,2399,5,2376,2400,2395,2369,2379,2397,2370,2383,2375,2389,2392,2382,2394],"class_list":{"0":"post-2989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-alliance","10":"tag-and","11":"tag-atlantic","12":"tag-brewing","13":"tag-cooperation","14":"tag-crisis","15":"tag-during","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-foreign","19":"tag-general","20":"tag-highlighted","21":"tag-in","22":"tag-islam","23":"tag-lavrov","24":"tag-meeting","25":"tag-minister","26":"tag-nato","27":"tag-north","28":"tag-nurlan","29":"tag-of","30":"tag-organization","31":"tag-russia","32":"tag-russian","33":"tag-sco","34":"tag-secretary","35":"tag-sees","36":"tag-sergey","37":"tag-shanghai","38":"tag-signs","39":"tag-the","40":"tag-times","41":"tag-union","42":"tag-with","43":"tag-within","44":"tag-yermekbayev"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}