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Hagel: NATO to rethink relations with Russia

By Robert Burns

Published May 2, 2014 7:06pm ET

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Hagel: NATO to rethink relations with Russia — People in helmets (left and right), dressed as Russian factories workers, hold a man wearing Barack Obama's mask with mock NATO's bomb in chains, as they take part in a Communists demonstration in downtown Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May, 1, 2014. Thousands of Communists, members of Russia's main political parties and opposition activists staged competing marches in Moscow and other cities Thursday marking the traditional May Day holiday. Poster at the background reads : Peace, Labour, May. (AP Photo/Denis Tyrin) | Denis Tyrin

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday that NATO should reconsider its relationship with Russia in light of its incursion into Ukraine, which should bury the idea that the end of the Cold War brought permanent peace to Europe.

“Russia’s actions in Ukraine shatter that myth and usher in bracing new realities,” Hagel said in a speech that captured the Obama administration’s deepening concern that decades of effort to draw Russia closer to the West may be failing.

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