Truemors
Russian troops have just withdrawn from Georgia. Russia launched the counter-attack last month after Georgian force tried to retake break-away region South Osetia. Western states condemned Russia's action as disproportionate.
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Medvedev was speaking a day after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Russia had taken a "dark turn" and urged the West to stand up to what she called its bullying tactics.
"We are in effect being pushed down a path that is founded not on fully-fledged, civilized partnership with other countries, but on autonomous development, behind thick walls, behind an Iron Curtain," Medvedev told a gathering of civil society groups in the Kremlin.
"That is not our path. For us there is no sense going back to the past. We have made our choice."
He said the NATO alliance's role in the Georgia conflict showed it was unable to provide security in Europe, underlining the need for a new security mechanism.
"What did NATO secure, what did NATO ensure? NATO only provoked the conflict, and not more than that," he said.
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