How Clinton Used Russia’s 1993 Crisis to Dupe Yeltsin on NATO’s Eastward March

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the bloody finale to the 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis – which saw the streets of Moscow turned into a battleground between pro-Yeltsin forces and the Supreme Soviet parliament. How did the Clinton White House take advantage of chaos to push NATO expansion? Sputnik dug through the archives for answers.