Behind the facade of democratic rhetoric, the relationship between NATO and Russia is rather tense. The drive of NATO to destroy Russian military power hjas been a cause of various agressive moves of the Russian army.

It is rational to use secret agencies in dictatorships, it is useful for the dictator to avoid certain mistakes and overcome coups in case. These apparatuses, however, are totaly unable to achieve the most important i.e. to mobilise the political support of the population.

Recently the Hungarian ministry of defence bought one hundred tanks from the government of Belarus. The deal violated several items of the law. This is, however, not an isolated case, i.e. the citizens have no guarantees that similar violations do not happen in other areas.

The six-party agreement in the Hungarian parliament assumes that integration into the European Union and into NATO are the two sides of the same coin. The author claims, however, that regional specificities tell us to deconstruct this package, and deal separately not only with the two institutions but also with various components of the EU i.e. the common market, redistribution, and monetary union.