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MOSCOW, Apr 29The entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO is very realistic, but even without joining the alliance, they can deploy NATO bases and military contingents on their territory, Doctor of Political Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of International Security at the Faculty of World Politics of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov Alexei Fenenko. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Thursday that the United States is waiting for a decision by Sweden and Finland on a possible entry into NATO before the alliance's upcoming June summit in Madrid. The head of American diplomacy stressed that if Finland and Sweden make a choice in favor of joining the alliance, the United States will strongly support their applications. «This is very realistic. The corresponding agreements on the expanded partnership between Sweden and Finland with NATO were prepared back in 2014. True, then they were not signed, but nothing prevents them from returning to this format. So, even without joining NATO, there is already a legal basis for deploying NATO bases and military contingents on their territory,» Fenenko said. He added that the neutrality of these two countries actually revised in 1995. «Their accession to the European Union meant, in fact, the rejection of the policy of neutrality, since the European Union has a common security and defense policy. Therefore, even now we can only talk about them as conditionally neutral countries,» the expert explained.April 27, 18:16 NATO said that Russia could influence Sweden's entry into the alliance The head of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, noted that the alliance would be glad to see Finland and Sweden in its ranks and provide them with the opportunity to quickly join. NATO expects these countries to make their own decisions about possible membership in the coming «months and weeks,» US Permanent Representative to NATO Julianne Smith said. She added that the United States would welcome the accession of these countries to the alliance. Russia has repeatedly noted that NATO is aimed at confrontation. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov stated that further expansion of the alliance would not bring greater security to Europe, NATO has an aggressive character. At the same time, he noted that he did not consider the possible entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO an existential threat to Russia. sanctions against energy resources from Russia