The election of Viktor Yanukovych as Ukraine"s...
was ever going to join NATO in the next five years. Recent developments simply ensure that a long-term project will take even longer-if it EVER happens," he added.Bremmer said there would be very little talk about NATO expansion within Europe in the next few years, as the initiative was not likely to meet with much support.
He also said that tensions in the post-Soviet space had been on a dramatic decline in recent years, due to economic troubles in Russia and a reset with the U.S. Obama administration as it tries to win Russian support for sanctions on Iran. And most importantly, "Russia is feeling more secure about how things are going in Georgia, where President [Mikheil] Saakashvili has been tamed, and in Ukraine, where the Russia-friendly Viktor Yanukovych has been elected president."
NEW YORK, March 5 (RIA Novosti)
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