Russia does not want to stop NATO expansion, wants NATO not to stop Russia's expansion (in Romanian)

"Russia does not care about NATO enlargement, but cares about its own enlargement. It does not want to stop NATO expansion, but wants NATO not to stop Russia's expansion. Russia is the last tyrannical empire in Europe and is desperate to reverse the republican and democratic traditions of European and Ukrainian politics," Volodymyr Yermolenko, Director of Analytics at Internews Ukraine and UkraineWorld's explained for Romanian newspaper Evenimentul Zilei Putin’s belligerent rhetoric and revealed real fear of the president of Russia.