In 2008, the proposed admission into NATO of two other former Soviet republics (Georgia and Ukraine) sparked a new flurry of allegations. In September 2008, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of Russia insisted that in the 1990s the United States had ' 'made a commitment not to expand NATO'' and had ' 'repeatedly broken this commitment'' in the years since. Similar claims were made by some Western analysts, who asserted that the United States ' 'had promised the Russians that NATO would not expand into the former Soviet empire.'' Zelikow and other former U.S. officials who played a direct role in the negotiations on German reunification once again rebutted these statements and denied that any such assurances were ever given.6.
The aim here has not been to judge, one way or the other, whether the enlargement of NATO was, or is, wise. That issue has been explored in great depth elsewhere. The purpose here has simply been to determine whether Russian and Western observers and officials are justified in arguing that the U.S. government, and perhaps some of the other NATO governments, made a ' 'pledge'' to Gorbachev in 1990 that if the USSR consented to Germany's full membership in NATO after unification, the alliance would not expand to include any other East European countries. Declassified materials show unmistakably that no such pledge was made. Valid arguments can be made against NATO enlargement, but this particular argument is spurious.7.
To sum up this part of essay, NATO is a key part of American military domination in Europe. By surrounding Russia with military bases NATO significantly makes threat for Russians defense system. That threat being permanently takes in Russia beget renewal of something which some called New Cold War.8 Even though some disagree with this thesis incontestably the NATO-Russian relations remain to be one of the major strands of global security in the twenty first century and are strictly connected with "cold war" issues.