Russia too had problems and fault lines in handling NATO expansion daijiworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from daijiworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This was in the 1990s when Russia had fallen weak after the split of Soviet Union and a hardliner nationalist Vladimir Putin was yet to take the centre stage.
The then Russian President Boris Yelstin could be blamed, as initially Russia took a fairly relaxed view of the so-called enlargement programme of NATO.This was in the 1990s when Russia had fallen weak after the split of Soviet Union and a .
On June 10, 1963, President Kennedy made a commencement address at the American University in Washington. US intelligence reports had Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Communist Party secretary, term it.
It is also argued that Putin's authoritarian inclination actually came from his former idol and boss, Anatoly Sobchak. Once seen as a possible president of Russia, Sobchak has been a central figure in Russia's revolution of the 1990s. Sobchak and Putin worked together when both were mayor and deputy mayor of St Petersburg.