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2000

• Transcript: U.S. Ambassador to NATO on NATO-Russian Relations 05 May 2000 -- U.S. Ambassador to NATO Alexander Vershbow appeared on a Department of State TV Interactive Dialogue Program devoted to NATO-Russian relations May 5, speaking from NATO headquarters in Brussels with journalists and other participants in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg.
• NATO GENERAL Voice of America 03 May 2000 -- NATO's new military commander says he will work hard to repair relations with Moscow that were badly strained by disagreements over Kosovo.
• Putin: Russia's NATO Accession Impossible Unless Alliance Transforms Peoples Daily 14 March 2000 -- Acting Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Monday that Russia will not consider the possibility of joining NATO unless the alliance reforms and treats Moscow as an equal partner.
• RUSSIA - NATO RELATIONS Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- NATO Secretary General George Robertson is coming to Moscow to meet Russian leaders on Wednesday in an attempt to mend relations that were severely strained last year.

  1999

• NATO-Russian Relations Improve, but Chechnya Raises Concern American Forces Press Service 10 December 1999 -- NATO's supreme allied commander Europe said the Russians have returned to liaison teams at SHAPE headquarters in Mons, Belgium. NATO-Russian consultations also have resumed at NATO's Permanent Joint Council and at the military representative and ambassadorial levels in Brussels, he said.
• RUSSIA / WALL REACTION Voice of America 09 November 1999 -- NATO's decision to incorporate Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic as well as NATO's military campaign in Yugoslavia helped to bring Russia-Western diplomatic relations to their lowest point since the Cold War.
• Text: Amb. Vershbow Remarks at Moscow State Institute 28 October 1999 -- U.S. Ambassador to NATO Alexander Vershbow, in what he called a "brutally frank" address at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations, outlined the present uneasy state of NATO-Russia relations, criticized Russia for many of its actions during the Kosovo crisis, and called on Russia "to view NATO and its offers of cooperation not through the prism of the past, but in the light of the new possibilities a changing world presents us."
• RUSSIA / NATO Voice of America 12 March 1999 -- RUSSIA IS REACTING TO THE FORMAL INTRODUCTION INTO NATO OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, HUNGARY AND POLAND WITH ANGER AND DEMONSTRATIONS.
• RUSSIA / NATO Voice of America 11 March 1999 -- THE OFFICIAL INCLUSION INTO NATO OF FORMER WARSAW PACT ALLIES POLAND, THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND HUNGARY IS A FURTHER REMINDER THAT RUSSIA'S STATUS AS A SUPERPOWER HAS EVAPORATED.

  1998

  1997

• Five Challenges For Russia Peace Magazine Sept-Oct 1997 - Sergei Rogov discusses the impact of NATO expansion on Russia and offers up the Paris Agreement as a workable and necessary solution
• [EXCERPT] WEST BEHAVES AS THE WINNER BUT IS STILL READY FOR A COMPROMISE Sergei ROGOV, Director of the US and Canada Studies Institute, (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, February 26. In full.)
• NATO: SOLANA MOSCOW TALKS; FRANCO-GERMAN 'ACCORD' (Foreign Media Reaction Daily Digest) NATO Secretary General Solana's talks in Moscow Jan. 20 with Russian Foreign Minister Primakov, the beginning of a new round of negotiations over NATO's plans for enlargement, were widely seen in the media abroad as yielding little or no progress. EDITOR: Mildred Sola Neely This survey is based on 65 reports from 16 countries, Jan. 14-Feb. 2.
• Russian Admirals Want President To Respond To NATO Expansion SEVASTOPOL, Jan 20 (Interfax)
• NATO: A FIST IN A KID GLOVE (Vek No. 1. In full.) Vladimir GERASIMOV, 20 January 97
• RUSSIA/NATO Voice of America CORRESPONDENT REPORT, NUMBER=2-208798, MOSCOW, PETER HEINLEIN, 1/16/97
• Alliance Seeks NATO-Russia Charter By Linda D. Kozaryn, American Forces Press Service, 15 Jan 97
• TEXT: 'ENSURING MILITARY SECURITY IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY' (Reprint from NATO Review, January 1997 edition) By Yuri Kirshin, Member of the Academy of Military Sciences, Moscow, 01/14/97
• RUSSIA / NATO (L) CORRESPONDENT REPORT, MOSCOW, PETER HEINLEIN, Voice of America, 1/13/97
• NATO STRATEGISTS' BLINDNESS Viktor CHEREPAKHIN (Novy Vzglyad, January 11. Abridged.)
• ALEXANDER SHOKHIN PUTS FORWARD THREE PRINCIPLES WITH THE OBSERVANCE OF WHICH RUSSIA MIGHT NOT OBJECT TO NATO EXPANSION EASTWARDS /RIA Novosti correspondent Valery Asriyan/. JANUARY 10
• RUSSIA SET TO COUNTER NATO'S EXPANSION: Boris Yeltsin Orders Russian Foreign Ministry and Other Concerned Departments to Prepare the Appropriate Plans By Yuri NIKOLAYEV (Rossiiskiye Vesti, January 9. In full.)
• MP: Russia To Look For New Allies, If Neglected By NATO, U.S. MOSCOW, (Interfax), January 9
• RUSSIA AND NATO NEED TO LOOK FOR A COMPROMISE IF THEY DO NOT WANT TO COME TO A NEW CONFRONTATION, BELIEVES THE PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF STRATEGIC ASSESSMENTS MOSCOW /RIA Novosti correspondent Sergei Ryabikin/ JANUARY 8
• Kremlin Reiterates Opposition To Would-Be NATO Expansion MOSCOW, (Interfax), January 6
• YELTSIN SETS TASK TO DRAFT PROGRAMME OF ACTION TO PROTECT RUSSIA'S INTERESTS IN VIEW OF PLANS FOR NATO'S EXPANSION EASTWARD MOSCOW, (From RIA Novosti correspondent), January 6
• SERGEI SHAKHRAI PROPOSES NEW VARIANTS OF RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO NATO'S EXPANSION MOSCOW, RIA NOVOSTI, MARIANNA SHATIKHINA, January 6
• RUSSIAN PRESIDENT HOLDING A MEETING TODAY ON THE PROPOSED NATO EXPANSION MOSCOW, RIA NOVOSTI, January 6
• CORRESPONDENT REPORT RUSSIA / NATO, MOSCOW, PETER HEINLEIN, Voice of America, January 6
• NATO: MYTHS AND REALITY Col.-Gen. Nikolai PISHCHEV, First Deputy-Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Krasnaya Zvezda, January 5. In full.)
• NATO CLAIMS: HOW FAR DO THEY GO? I. Maksimychev, D.Sc. (Political Science), Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (Rossiiskaya Gazeta, January 4. In full.)
• BORIS YELTSIN AND HELMUT KOHL DISCUSSED THE ISSUE OF NATO'S EXTENSION AND AGREED TO CONTINUE THE SEARCHES FOR RESOLVING THE PROBLEM MOSCOW, RIA NOVOSTI, JANUARY 4
• ENSURING MILITARY SECURITY IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY Yuri Kirshin NATO Review, January 1997

  1996

• NATO'S LAST CHANCE: The West Should Invite Russia to Join NATO, Eliminating Bilateral Tensions as a Result By Alexei ARBATOV, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma's Defense Committee (YaBLoko faction) (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, December 26. In full.)
• RUSSIA AND ITS ARMED FORCES IN CHANGING EUROPE Military News Bulletin Vol. V, No. 12 (60) December, 1996 From the speech of General of the Army Igor RODIONOV, Defence Minister of Russia, in the Italian Centre for High Military Studies on 14 November 1996.
• Building the NATO-Russia Relationship by Sergey Rogov NDU Strategic Forum Number 76, May 1996

  1995

  1994

• Ambassador Viktor Komplektov Russia's Contribution to the New European Security & Stability Building A New NATO: The Search for Peace and Security In an Unsettled World XIth NATO Workshop On Political-Military Decision Making -- Os, Norway 15-19 June 1994
• General-Major Vasili Filipovich Latta Implementation of the Partnership for Peace Building A New NATO: The Search for Peace and Security In an Unsettled World XIth NATO Workshop On Political-Military Decision Making -- Os, Norway 15-19 June 1994

  1993

  1992