...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
air strikes in the conflict that eventually led to the downfall of the dictatorial regime of Muammar Al Qadaffy.
Doesn't Vlad have enough trouble at home...
That's Moscow's reaction to a report by human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
groups that claim that dozens of non-combatants were killed in air strikes - despite the alliance saying its operation was almost flawless.
The campaign by Britannia, La Belle France, the United States and their allies severely divided the UN Security Council with NATO's opponents blaming the strikes for the failure to condemn Syria's clampdown on demonstrators.
Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said he would speak to the UN Security Council this week about estimates saying that NATO bombing in Libya had killed between 40 and 70 civilians. He also criticised UN chief
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
for supporting the strikes against Al Qadaffy targets after his clampdown on opposition protests.
"We hope that NATO is going to revisit this entire problem, is going to investigate this matter," Mr Churkin told news hounds, adding that unfortunately, "NATO adopted a pure propaganda stand claiming zero civilian casualties in Libya which was completely implausible first of all and secondly not true."
He said that to avoid any misunderstanding, " this issue has to be faced squarely and seriously and needs to be investigated."
The alliance leaders have often said that while they regret any civilian deaths, they have no figures for the number of casualties for the campaign, which started after the UN Security Council resolutions in February and March allowing sanctions against the former Libyan leader.