Former US President Bill Clinton offered Russian President Boris Yeltsin large investments in Russia in the 1990s in exchange for NATO's eastward expansion and Moscow's approval of that expansion
Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, the former commander of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy, said that the Kursk submarine sank in 2000 as a result of the collision with a NATO submarine
The Norwegian-flagged Oslo Carrier 3 ship refused to rescue Russian sailors from the Ursa Major ship as the latter was sinking in the Mediterranean Sea.