Quote of the Day: Russian President Yeltsin

'nothing but a humiliation' for Russia, and he flatly rejected the idea: 'for me to agree to the borders of NATO expanding towards those of Russia-that would constitute a betrayal on my part of the Russian people." Yet NATO still expanded , taking Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic in 1999, and nine more countries were offered Membership Action Plans detailing their path to joining the alliance."