This week's NATO summit in Romania will be Vladimir Putin's last appearance at a top-level international forum before he steps down as president, and the place where he expects to finally see an end to NATO's expansion into the stamping grounds of the former Soviet Union.
The Kremlin realizes that it does not have the power to force the West to reverse its recognition of Kosovo's independence or persuade Washington to drop its plan to deploy missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic.
But Putin has had notable success in blocking NATO membership for its ex-Soviet neighbors _ Ukraine and Georgia.
"Georgia's accession into NATO will be …
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