As NATO leaders trade barbs ahead of a tense summit in London, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that Russia is watching developments at the alliance's birthday meeting ``with great attention.'' The 29-country trans-Atlantic military alliance was founded in 1949 to provide collective security for Europe against what was then the Soviet Union. Peskov said Tuesday that NATO is ``a product of the era of confrontation, the Cold War era,'' something he says that Russia does not want to return to. But he says that ``an alliance that was created and shaped by the confrontation ideology, of course, can't bring anything else'' but confrontation. Turkey's increasingly close relations with Moscow _ and its purchase of Russian air defense systems that are incompatible with NATO equipment _ has added to tensions among the allies. But Peskov says those ties are not hurting NATO. France, meanwhile, also wants closer ties with Russia.