Russian Leader Warns Against NATO Expansion. (Boston Globe)…Associated Press, June 6, 2008
Russia’s president showed muscle yesterday in his first major foreign policy speech since taking office a month ago, warning that a further NATO expansion eastward would ruin Russia’s relations with the West.
Speaking to a group of German policy makers and business leaders, Dmitry Medvedev’s warning continued the course of his predecessor Vladimir Putin – who fiercely opposed the alliance’s plans to incorporate Russia’s former Soviet neighbors, Ukraine and Georgia. Yet Medvedev also sounded more conciliatory, making offers to step back from confrontation and work out a new European security pact.
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