YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS. Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed attendees during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York, September 28, 2015.

Cold War thinking and the desire to explore new geopolitical areas are still present among some in the international community, said Putin.

“First they continued their policy of expanding NATO,” he said. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, “they offered post-Soviet countries a false choice – either to be with the West or with the East. Sooner or later the logic of confrontation was bound to spark off a grave geopolitical crisis. This is exactly what happened in Ukraine where the discontent of the population with the current authorities was used and a military coup was orchestrated from the outside that triggered civil war as a result,” “Armenpress” reports the aforementioned, referring to RT.