Russia is unlikely to re-establish its NATO membership

 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and former Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO Alexander Grushko ruled out the possibility of restoring his country's representation in NATO in Brussels. Russia announced the termination of its NATO mission in mid-October in response to the Alliance's decision to revoke the accreditation of eight members of Russia's permanent mission to the organization. The work of the NATO Information Bureau and the military liaison mission in Moscow has also been suspended, reminds the Russian newspaper "Kommersant".                       "Everything is developing in such a way that we will hardly return there," Grushko said during a discussion at the Valdai club, answering the host's question whether Russia would return to Brussels.

In early October, the NATO Secretariat informed the Russian side of the decision of the Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg to revoke the accreditation of eight employees of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation from November 1, 2021, and to reduce the total number of diplomatic missions to 10 people. . According to Stoltenberg, the expelled diplomats were "unannounced spies.".                                                                                         Commenting on the termination of the dialogue with NATO, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the North Atlantic Alliance itself was to blame for the closure of Russia's permanent mission to the organization. The Russian president noted that Moscow "does not want to cooperate with NATO anyway."