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Washington, Dec 25 (IANS) Long before Russia’s confrontation with the West hardened into open hostility, President Vladimir Putin privately warned U.S. President George W. Bush that NATO expansion into Ukraine and Georgia would create permanent instability, according to newly released transcripts of their meetings from 2001 to 2008. The documents, released by the National Security Archive, show Putin repeatedly arguing that NATO’s eastward expansion posed a direct threat to Russia’s securi…