MOSCOW. Nov 2 (Interfax) - Russia hopes to find a compromise at an upcoming summit with NATO that would persuade the alliance to stop its eastward enlargement, Russia's NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin told Vesti 24 television on Tuesday.
"We have quite a tough demand that NATO should stop its eastward enlargement because our military officials see only one thing behind beautiful words that are frequently heard from high tribunes and at press conferences - that foreign military infrastructure is nearing our western borders," Rogozin said.
"We hope to find a compromise that would persuade NATO to start to digest what it has already eaten in the past ten years and not to enlarge further," the official said.
If they move eastward any further, "they would come across the lair of the Russian bear which Western hunters are so afraid of," Rogozin said.