A Long Road West for Russia; Despite Warming With U.S., 'Standards' Keep Sides Apart

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 9, 2001| Author: Susan B. Glasser and Peter Baker | Copyright information

For all the ambitious talk about Russia's historic opportunity to integrate into the West, the effort to open a small NATO information office in Moscow illustrates how difficult it will be to achieve that goal.

To set up an outpost of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization here took years of wrangling over matters of protocol large and small. After the ribbon had been cut in February, it took another six months to actually open the office. Even today, a long-promised military liaison m...

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