Bucharest is hosting its first NATO summit this week. Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s envoy to NATO, thinks the issue of Afghanistan is in fact a key tension point for the whole Bucharest summit.

Vladimir Putin is to take part in a Russia-NATO session at the Atlantic alliance’s summit in Bucharest. Alexandr Konovalov, President of the Institute of Strategic Assessments, outlines the main topics of the talks.

The eastward expansion of NATO takes centre stage at a key summit in Romania. Political analyst and President of the Eurasia foundation, Andrey Kortunov, looks at the prospects for the meeting.