Solzhenitsyn: NATO (the USA) seeks to control Russia

MOSCOW. April 27 (Interfax) - Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, in an interview to be published on Friday, accused NATO of plotting to put Russia under its control and slammed Ukraine for "fanatically suppressing" the Russian language.

"Though it is clear that present-day Russia poses no threat to them, NATO is methodically and persistently building up its military machine - into the east of Europe and by continentally surrounding Russia from the south. This involves open material and ideological support for 'color' revolutions, the paradoxical forcing of North Atlantic interests on Central Asia," the former Soviet dissident told the newspaper Moscow News.

"All this leaves no doubt that this amounts to preparations for the complete encirclement of Russia and then its loss of sovereignty," he said.