RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 3, 2008
TODAY: NATO summit to take place tomorrow, unlikely that invitations will be extended to Georgia and Ukraine. Russian reporter granted political asylum in the UK. Suspended official tries to link Berezovsky to Politkovskaya murder. Time to disband NATO? One British journalist says that Russia has “legitimate grievances” with the alliance. Is Moscow’s NATO strategy political or economic? UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has “sided with more cautious EU allies against President George Bush” over US support for the admission of the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO. A NATO spokesman says he does not expect the two countries to be granted future membership at the alliance’s summit in Bucharest. One newspaper calls this a diplomatic failure for Bush.