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 .