A new map has shown Vladimir Putin's "shadow war" being fought on NATO territory including in the US, Europe and the UK. A ...

Shortly before President Putin sent his troops into Ukraine on 24 February, he demanded a redrawing of the security map of Europe ... is that such a major expansion of Nato, right on Russia's ...

but the promise of NATO and EU expansion avoided turning much of Eastern Europe into a potential Yugoslavia in the ’90s and did a lot to put the region on a democratic path. Practical ...

Nato was founded in Washington DC in April 1949 Nato's primary purpose, external was to block expansion in Europe by the former Soviet Union - a group of communist republics which included Russia.