Russia: Ease Moscow’s Suspicions

There are only two choices, cooperation with Russia in the same period, or with Russia.
If someone's brains have been washed, so the Western people. I live in Finland, and I read both Western and Russian media. And I say, "if you do not know Russian-thou you are not a free man, but a western propaganda product."

NATO doors are open to any country (including Russia). I have heard that from US officials a few times. A couple months ago, Rice repeated this again. However, requirements for joining NATO must be the same for Russia.
Never since collapse of Soviet Union, has Russia showed its commitment to democracy or rule of law. Eltsin instigated 3 wars in Georgia in early nineties. Eltsin's Russia attempted to kill the president of Georgia (Shevardnadze) twice. Eltsin started the first Chechen war.
Putin went far beyond Eltsin - the Second Chechen war (and hundreds of thousands civilan Chechen casualties), intimidation and murder of journalists, violent handling of discontent, ignoring of basic human rights and civil liberties, suppression of independent media and political opposition. Offering Russia NATO membership is not only dangerous, but immoral.
The argument about braking promises not to expand NATO is Russia's lame attempt to stop evolution of democracy in former USSR. It is democracy in its "backyard" that Russian leadership really fears. Democracy in Georgia and Ukraine will one day spread to Russia. This means that Putin won't be able to hand-pick his successor or continue doing whatever he likes to do. Brainwashed public absorbs everything that state-controlled media says.
Supporting democracy within Russia and in former Soviet states, accepting into NATO those who made significant progress is the right solution to prevent Russia's further aggression.

Why you such malicious? We that were at war with each other? Now it is better than the relation of Russia and Germany than with USA. Correctly say that the old enemy is better than the new friend.

I think that countries like US, UK want to destroy Russia. And NATO is a part of The Big Game. And people should understand, The way which we go is a way of war. There are a lot of militarists from each side. In the media often writes about freedom of speech in Russia. However, unlike the Americans and the British, many people in Russia read the foreign press and I always can watch CNN and BBC .It's interesting to watch - Russian channel - Georgia attacked a Osetia by killing Russian peacekeepers, includes CNN - and then the whole screen-hot news- Russia bombed Tbilisi.
Its a very dangerous game. Dear democrats- be carefully, because unlike Iraq, Russia has weapons of mass destruction.