By Pavel Andreev, RIA Novosti Head of International...

The security architecture of the Euroatlantic space needs to change. Last year’s conflict in the Caucasus vividly demonstrated both the current system’s nascent but developing, instability, and its fragility. The potential for a just and sustainable security architecture in the spirit of the Charter of Paris and a Europe united has been compromised over the post cold war years by the failure to establish a link of trust in relations between East and West, between Russia, the U.S. and its NATO allies. Moreover, in today’s world with its complex perception of security and rising external challenges to the Euroatlantic region, Russia, Europe and North America need to find ways of reconnecting under the banner of shared security concerns, rather than clinging to their exclusive and divisive security arrangements.

It seems Russia is the first to realize this. Historically part of Western civilization, throughout the past decade it has continuously felt excluded from

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