By Jan Carnogursky

Former Slovakian prime minister (1991 to 1992) and chairman of the Slovak-Russian Friendship Society Jan Carnogursky has expressed his skepticism about NATO’s eastward expansion, saying it has diminished opportunities for pan-European cooperation, and predicts the alliance will quickly collapse.

“I believe that NATO’s eastward expansion ruined the possibility of pan-European cooperation. I think NATO will soon collapse, because there is no basis for its development,” he said during the RIA Novosti-organized video link-up between Moscow and Bratislava.

Charnogursky also said that NATO is not popular in Slovakia, and that the country’s entry into the alliance had been engineered by the local media. Moreover, the necessary referendum for Slovakia to join NATO was never held.

“We needed to collect signatures, which I was involved in. We managed to collect 200,000 signatures, but we needed 250,000 for a compulsory referendum, which,

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