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`Russia needs a say in NATO decision making`

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Published 05 March, 2009, 15:20

Russia’s biggest problem with NATO is that it has no reliable mechanism to influence the alliance’s decisions, says Sergey Utkin, an analyst from the Moscow-based Institute of World Economy and International relations.

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