Go to the media bankMOSCOW, Sep 19 There was constant talk of NATO moving east, but Russia has always stated that such an option is unacceptable, Vladimir Shevchenko, former head of protocol for Russia's first president Boris Yeltsin, told RIA Novosti. alliance to the east. «I don't remember this happening. The conversation constantly touched on NATO's advance to the east, but he was constantly told that this was unacceptable,» Shevchenko told RIA Novosti. In turn, Moscow has repeatedly noted that the North Atlantic Alliance is aimed to a confrontation. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov previously called the alliance's actions in Iraq, Libya and the former Yugoslavia a tragedy, where the people's right to life was trampled on by NATO «in the most rude and illegal way.» At the same time, as Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, emphasized, the expansion of the bloc will not bring greater security to Europe. The West is waging war to destroy Russia
