Russia's Lavrov blames West for new 'Cold War', warns it could turn 'hot'

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday blamed the West for triggering a new Cold War, and warned it risked turning into an East-West conflict, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.

In remarks to an OSCE summit in Malta, RIA quoted Lavrov as saying that the West was behind a "reincarnation of the Cold War, only now with a much greater risk of a transition to a hot one".