{"id":125598,"date":"2019-12-31T01:01:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/31\/mod-proposed-russian-membership-of-nato-in-1995-files-reveal\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T01:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T00:01:21","slug":"mod-proposed-russian-membership-of-nato-in-1995-files-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=125598","title":{"rendered":"MoD proposed Russian membership of Nato in 1995, files reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Released papers expose \u2018associate membership\u2019 plan and Yeltsin\u2019s drinking habitsRussia could have become an \u201cassociate member\u201d of Nato 25 years ago if a Ministry of Defence proposal had gained support, according to confidential Downing Street files which also expose Boris Yeltsin\u2019s drinking habits.The suggestion, aimed at reversing a century of east-west antagonism, is revealed in documents released on Tuesday by the National Archives at Kew. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/dec\/31\/russia-associate-membership-nato-malcolm-rifkind-chequers-boris-yeltsin\" target=\"_blank\">MoD proposed Russian membership of Nato in 1995, files reveal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released papers expose \u2018associate membership\u2019 plan and Yeltsin\u2019s drinking habitsRussia could have become an \u201cassociate member\u201d of Nato 25 years ago if a Ministry of Defence proposal had gained support, according to confidential Downing Street files which also expose Boris Yeltsin\u2019s drinking habits.The suggestion, aimed at reversing a century of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}