"Generations of Russians feel betrayed by NATO's expansion"

The NATO summit in Bucharest has gathered more than three thousand top politicians, diplomats and military experts. President Putin is attending the Russia-NATO council for the first time since 2002. On this edition we're taking you backstage for a look at the background of Russia-NATO negotiations... The guest on Spotlight is a person with first-hand experience of the process, one of Russia's top diplomats, head of the European Cooperation Department of the Russian foreign ministry - Sergey Ryabkov.

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[WINNNY22]

ukrain is now pro-russia and suck!!! and saasashwili will go to hell soon! hahaha

[WINNNY22]

thats god im not in singapoor

[CrazyLeiFeng]

So good we are in NATO and not in Warsaw Pact or some other Kremlin construct...

[smartje]

Paranoid russians

[Regularchum]

What's the name of the man being interviewed at the end?

[ctcole77]

That's bad?

[ctcole77]

LOL!

Giving Georgian citizens Russian passports DOESN'T make them Russians.

WOW, it's just like the Soviet days, you believe anything Putin tells you.

Enjoy your victory while you can. When Ukraine and Georgia are in NATO, Russia won't be able to push around those nations anymore.

It's not the 19th century anymore. These nations are sick of Russia and don't want to be your ally anymore.

[andy7666]

Well said!

[andy7666]

Im sure the next time Russian citizens are being killed by rogue nations like Georgia, they will follow your advice and stand idly by.. Then again they probably won't - and thank goodness THEY have some sense at least!

[ctcole77]

NEWSFLASH!!!

NATO's POSITIVE acceptance by nations is a direct result of decades (in some cases 100s of years) of repressive Russian dominance over those nations.

I understand Russian concerns over encirclement, but Russians need to understand conflict in Georgia and Checheya and threats from Putin only push more nations toward NATO.