BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday that cuts in European members' defence spending, especially in central and eastern Europe, were unsustainable as Russia increases its military budget.
"Russian defence spending has grown by more than 10 percent in real terms each year over the past five years," he told a security conference in the Slovak capital.
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