in moscow, dmitry babich, political analyst at rossiya sevodnya, a news agency.brussels, theresa fallon, director of the center for russia-europe-asia studies. in sochi, glenn diesen is professor of international relations at the university of southeastern norway. welcome to the program. dmitry, what kind of message is russia trying to send by suspending its diplomatic mission to nato? guest: most of the observers connected to the expulsion of eight russian diplomats members of our mission at nato, a few days ago. but i would point to another very important occasion. the head of the pentagon, the american defense minister, lloyd austin, is now touring georgia and ukraine. he will also visit romania. and he promised during his tour, as he said, he would reassure the countries which are on the frontline of russian aggression. and of course, this was taken very badly in russia, because at home, the reviewers for over 30 or maybe even over 40, remember that ukraine and georgia were parts of the soviet union. kiev and get alecia are as familiar to russians of my gener