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Did Russia Try to Join NATO?

Did Russia try to join NATO? Did western nations rebuff Russia's early attempts to integrate following the end of the Cold War? In this 2017 interview, Russian writer, democracy activist and political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza told the Foreign Policy Association, "I don't want to lay the blame on anybody else. The vast majority of the blame for what happened in Russia, and for the end of that democratic experiment, and for the beginning of the Putin dictatorship, most of the blame lies squarely...inside our own borders inside Russian borders. However, I think it's also very important, if only for future reference, and for avoiding this mistake in the future the next time Russia engages in a democratic experiment, which it will...I think one of the biggest mistakes that Western democracies made in the 1990s is that they were not ready and willing to embrace the new democratic Russia fully in their ranks...President Yeltsin sent a letter to the NATO Secretary General, raising the possibility of Russia applying for NATO membership. It sounds crazy today, but that that is exactly what happened. And that letter was not even answered."