Watch carefully the behavior of Russia. It will not stop where it stands, now that it suspended its participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe [CFE], which was signed in 1990 by member states of both the NATO and the former Warsaw Treaty, thus sealing the de facto end of the Cold War.

Once the KGB-controlled president Vladimir Putin will leave office, the KGB would not want to lose control over the political power in Moscow.

Russia re-asserted itself on the international arena blackmailing Europe with leaving it out of gas supplies, and now pushed the button one notch higher, with its stepping out of the CFE Treaty.

I would expect Russia to reconsider even the treaties dealing with the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

The democratic reforms adopted in Russia during the presidencies of both Michail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin fed the frustration of people still nostalgic for the good old days of the Soviet Union.

Former KGB and GRU officers, former dignitaries in the communist party, generals in the Red Army and managers of the arms manufacturing companies - they all wanted to get back what they lost, once Russia took a turn towards democracy.

The young people, nostalgic for the good old days, educated by the KGB in the West, gave the tone of the new politics Moscow is now embarking on with a zest.

It may be a rock-opera sung with Western instruments performing on the streets of Moscow, but the tune is the one of the good old father of terror Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky.

In 1999, when talk about adapting the CFE to post-Cold War realities was on, Russia pledged to take out its troops from former Soviet states now out of its national territory.

Cases in point were Republic of Moldova and Georgia.

However, Moscow did not make good on its promis