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The confrontation between Russia and the West is fueled by many grievances, but the greatest is Moscow’s belief that the West tricked the former Soviet Union by breaking promises made at the end of the Cold War in 1989 and 1990 that NATO would not expand eastward. In his now famous 2007 speech to the Munich Security Conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of forgetting and breaking assurances, leaving international law in ruins. The betrayal claim matters desperately to Russia since it fuels distrust, feeds Russia’s cynicism about international law and is the central ...

Russia previously slammed the alliance's creeping expansion, saying that NATO should return to the positions that existed at the moment of signing the 1997 Russia-NATO Founding Act.

Vyacheslav Nikonov: We are not in the usual studio in Ostankino but in the Foreign Ministry's historic mansion on Spiridonovka Street. This is where the Limited Test Ban Treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and...

In the past two months, Vladimir Putin has ramped up the pressure in Europe in a bid to force the U.S. and its allies back to the negotiating table. Russia has staged 100,000 troops along the border with Ukraine, threatening to unleash new aggression against Ukraine unless Russian demands are met. Belarus, Russia’s ally, continues to pressure Eastern European nations through hybrid attacks that include the weaponization of migrant flows.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his senior aides have repeatedly claimed that Western powers broke promises they made not to expand NATO as the Sovi