nineties, russia was mentioned as a geopolitical participant in nato, but at that very meeting of the nsc in october of ninety -four it was said: that the prospects for membership for russia should not be excluded, openly, the key word is open, it was said that the united states needs to offer alternatives to russia’s membership, in the end it is. turned into the russian nato council. the russia-nato founding act was signed in may 1997 in paris. then the parties announced that they did not consider each other as opponents. a joint russia-nato council was established, the task of which was to create a higher level of trust in order to increase the security of each other of all countries in the euro-atlantic region. that it is the un security council that bears the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security, which means that any nato actions can only be carried out under the mandate of the security council, where russia has the right of veto. the first crisis in russia's relations with nato occurred in 1999, when the bombing of yugoslavia began, in 2003 withou