Boris Yeltsin Privately Supported NATO Expansion

Declassified files show how Russia’s president, during the 1990s, repeatedly told Western counterparts he was “not against” expansion of the military alliance, Matt Kennard reports. He even devised an agreement to bring the Russian people onside. 



By Matt Kennard 
Declassified UK


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