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“Russia ambivalent about joining NATO”

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The latest public opinion polls indicate that the Russian people remain split over joining NATO, including a huge number of those undecided, says Ira Straus from the NATO Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia.

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Zak August 09, 2009, 07:17
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To Miguel: All of you from TERRORIST states are sick mega bastards,mass killers,kids-raping criminals! Your are the low of any kind of shits known in human history! Live,eat and shit in a stolen land(rob by genocide from native indians)we wont forget not forgive-one day you will pay for yours horror crimes whitch you commit around the world and nothing will save you in the future! And gues what: Free peaceful states with a only SUPERPOWER on planet(Usa is brave with small states-without weapons, but with Russia,China you always been in history a chicken heart,afraid to death) )as their leader will bury you in the end! Every crime witch you commit will come on your soil with intrest.You are as good as death...

Miguel August 07, 2009, 17:58
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To start off, I think you Russian bastards make me sick, and you should all burn in hell. You people can keep dreaming, Russia will never be the SuperPower that it once was, ignorance and alcoholism is too rampant. To relply to Fred's comments that the U.S. and its Allies consume peoples resources with its mighty military machine. I definitely agree, and we're doing a damm good job at it. If Russia became the top enforcer in the world do you think it would be any better than the United States? Do you think it would aid the world of all its problems of injustice and hunger? NO! I think Russia would rape the world 10X more than the U.S. ever would. Russians have a long history of barbarism and time doesn't seem to change the Russian Bear.

SKL August 04, 2009, 10:57
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it's never gonna happen. the foreign affairs dept. just doesn't want to say a direct NO because it will be politically misinterpreted as hostility