In a speech on Monday to the World Policy Conference in évian, France, the Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, called for a new global security framework that would challenge the United States’ “determination to enforce its global dominance.” He warned that American policy — in particular the expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders and a planned missile defense system — was reviving the global divisions of the cold war. Russia, he said, is “absolutely not interested in confrontation.
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