Breaking the U.S.-Russia Impasse: Keeping the Door Open to Dialogue

... Ilya Kravchenko: USA and NATO: Who Needs Who? Geostrategic Concerns At the roots of the crisis is the fact that NATO and the European Union (EU) have now expanded to states that border the Russian Federation in such a way as to directly or indirectly ... ... Georgia, among other former Soviet-bloc states. Moscow has also opposed the deepening of NATO military infrastructure, including Missile Defense systems, on the territory of new member states. Moscow has likewise been pressuring EU members Sweden and Finland ...