The Bush administration is indifferent towards the attempts made by Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia in order to distance themselves from Moscow by strengthening ties with western organizations, e.g. with the NATO, "The Washington Post" writes in an article called "Mr. Putin's neighbors," "Mediamax" agency reported. "As in the case with Khodorkovsky, Bush assistants state they do not like Putin's intentions regarding his neighbors, however they acknowledge at once that they cannot say anything more on the occasions," the article says. The newspaper reminds that October 9 the president and defense minister of Russia presented "the Putin doctrine," according to which Moscow reserves the right to use military force when solving conflicts in adjacent states, as well as assumes the control over the pipelines passing through the Caucasus and Middle Asia, "even if, in Putin's words, some parts of those systems go beyond the Russian borders."