Russia warns on NATO expansion
By Christopher Boian
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
June 8, 2006
MOSCOW -- Russia issued a sharp warning yesterday to the United States and the former Soviet republics looking to join NATO, saying expansion of the bloc into lands the Kremlin considers its back yard would have a "colossal" and negative effect.
In a statement to the Russian parliament, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that "membership in NATO for countries like Ukraine or Georgia would mean a colossal geopolitical shift" and would compel Moscow to respond to safeguard its security and other national interests.
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The Cold War Has Officially Heated Up….
It’s not a new Cold War, but the same old war with the Chess pieces re-arranged a little differently this time.
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ABC News
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Thursday, June 08, 2006
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