Chapters: Permanent Representatives of Russia to Nato, Nato-russia Relations, Dmitry Rogozin, Vitaly Churkin, Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak, Anti-Nato. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: NATO-Russian relations is about the relations between NATO military alliance and Russia. Formal contacts and cooperation between Russia and NATO start in 1991, within the framework of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (later re-named Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council) and are further deepened as Russia joined the Partnership for Peace programme on June 22, 1994 On 27 May 1997, at 1997 Paris summit of NATO, sides signed a Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security, a road map for future NATO-Russia cooperation. Both sides state they do not see each other as adversaries, and have political commitment to cooperate at creating "lasting and inclusive" peace in Euro-Atlantic area. Meeting of the RussiaNATO council in Bucharest, Romania on 4 April 2008The NATO-Russia Council was created on 28 May 2002 during the 2002 NATO Summit in Rome. The council has been an official diplomatic tool for handling security issues and joint projects between NATO and Russia, involving "consensus-building, consultations, joint decisions and joint actions." "Joint decisions and actions," taken under NATO-Russia Council agreements, include fighting terrorism, military cooperation (joint military exercises and personnel training), cooperation on Afghanistan (Russia providing training courses for anti-narcotics officers from Afghanistan and Central Asia countries in cooperation with the UN), transportation by Russia of non-military freight in support of NATO's ISAF in Afghanistan, industrial cooperation, cooperation on defence interoperability, non-proliferation, and other ar...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1906657