Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Andrew Kuchins, director of the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Ukraine's Hopes to Join NATO Soured by Fierce Opposition from Russia, Internal Problems."
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Andrew Kuchins, director of the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Ukraine's Hopes to Join NATO Soured by Fierce Opposition from Russia, Internal Problems."
If it weren't for Ukraine's drive to join NATO, army conscripts here might still be peeling potatoes and wrapping their feet in cloth instead of socks, as their predecessors had done for centuries.
Ukrainian officials will showcase these and other reforms at the NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, this week, in hopes the Western military alliance will risk angering Moscow and invite this former Soviet republic to start the process of membership. [...]
"The carrot of membership has been very useful," said Andrew Kuchins, head of the Russia and Eurasia program with the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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