Bucharest Nine(B9) rejected the Russian claim about the eastward \u201cexpansion\u201d of the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n About<\/strong>: It<\/span> is a group of nine NATO countries in Eastern Europe that became part of the US-led military alliance after the end of the Cold War.<\/span><\/p>\n F<\/strong>ounded in: 2015<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n It takes its name from <\/span>Bucharest, the capital of Romania. <\/b>This group is also regarded as the \u201c<\/span>voice of the Eastern Flank<\/b>\u201d in the NATO alliance.<\/span><\/p>\n The group was created on the initiative of<\/span> Klaus Iohannis who has been President of Romania and Andrzej Duda who became President of Poland in 2015, <\/b>at the High-Level Meeting of the States from Central and Eastern Europe in Bucharest.<\/span><\/p>\n Members of B9<\/b>: Romania and Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the three Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.<\/span><\/p>\n All members of the <\/span>B9 are part of the European Union (EU) and NATO.<\/b><\/p>\n All B9 countries were <\/span>once closely associated with the now-dissolved Soviet Union<\/b>, but later chose the path of democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n The B9 countries have been critical of <\/span>Russia\u2019s aggression against Ukraine since 2014 <\/b>when the war in the Donbas started and Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Explained: Who are the Bucharest Nine, countries on NATO\u2019s eastern flank?<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in <\/span>Indian Express <\/b>on 27th March 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Bucharest Nine(B9) rejected the Russian claim about the eastward \u201cexpansion\u201d of the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). What is Bucharest Nine(B9)? About: It is a group of nine NATO countries in Eastern Europe that became part of the US-led military alliance after the end of the Cold War. Founded in: 2015. It… Continue reading Explained: Who are the Bucharest Nine, countries on NATO\u2019s eastern flank?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-176359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704921346},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Bucharest Nine(B9)?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the relationship between B9 Countries and Russia?<\/b><\/h5>\n