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Some myths go back millennia.
This myth, if it is one, goes back to 1990 and just over three decades later, it continues to form a central grievance in Russian President Vladimir Putin s testy narrative about Moscow s ties with the West.
It s the question of NATO expansion an unhealed scab that, with Russian-Western relations at their lowest ebb since the Cold War, has been picked off yet again and is now bleeding into public view.
Casting the issue into the spotlight this time was not an angry tirade from Putin but a report by the London-based think tank Chatham House, which, in a May 13 publication, aimed to dispel a host of what it called