LEBED ON COSTS OF NATO ENLARGEMENT…

In comments made to Russian radio on September 11, Kremlin security supremo Aleksandr Lebed referred to the "stupidity" of Western taxpayers for their apparent readiness to pay $250-270 billion to finance NATO enlargement. But a top NATO leader, speaking in Ukraine on September 14, suggested that $10 billion over ten years was a more reasonable estimate of the cost of expansion. (Interfax, September 14)

…On Lukashenko.