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Russia-West relationship

The relationship between Russia and Western countries, particularly in the context of NATO expansion

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did NATO promise not to expand in eastern europe?

No single, legally binding promise to forswear expansion into exists in the archival record; Western officials made oral assurances in 1990 limited to the disposition of NATO forces on a reunified , w...

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What are russias goals in the Ukraine war

entered its full-scale invasion of in February 2022 with a mix of public rationales—protecting Russian-speakers in and , “demilitarising” and “denazifying” Ukraine, and preventing expansion—and privat...