NATO expansion to the East poses a threat to national interests of Russia, declared Leonid Ivashov, the vice president of the Academy of Geopolitical Affairs during a videoconference Moscow – Sofia "Former participants of the Warsaw Treaty between NATO and Russia ", informs a REGNUM correspondent. According to him, practice of the last years shows that NATO from organization of collective security is growing into an aggressive military bloc, the purpose of which is to strangle unwanted regimes and to launch aggressions.
Ivashov admitted that Armed Forces of Russia are weaker, than the combined forces of the North-Atlantic Alliance. According to him, the agreement about partnership between Russia and NATO, signed as early as in 1997, was never implemented. Ivashov believed there is a dictatorship of one state, the USA, in the alliance. There is no democracy in this organization, said the expert.
In its turn, Dmitry Danilov, the head of department in the Institute of European Studies of the Russian Academy of Science believes that further steps of alliance towards admission of Ukraine and Georgia will be for sure considered in Moscow as anti-Russian policy. According to Danilov, such actions of NATO are considered by Russia as an answer for the actions of Russia in the Caucasus in August of 2008.
Anatoliy Tsyganok, the head of the center of military forecasting at the Academy of Military Sciences said that for the moment NATO does not solve the problems of security, to prove his words he cited the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, where alleged purposes are still not achieved. In addition, problems with drug trafficking and illegal migration remained unsolved, stressed the expert.
The participants of the videoconference from Bulgaria have an opposite point of view. Chairman of the Atlantic club of NATO in Bulgaria Lyubomir Ivanov believes that membership of Bulgaria in NATO allowed to improve its economic situation. Exactly at the time when Bulgaria became the member of the alliance, investments flow increased to the country. According to Ivanov, pluses from the membership to NATO are much more than minuses. The same opinion was also expressed by other participants of the session from Bulgaria.
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