The Baltic Business News reports that according to Ria Novosti and Reuters Russia will place Iskander-type missiles in Kaliningrad, as a response to the planned US missile shield in Europe. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said in his annual speech to the Federal Council that Russia will start staggering US missile shields electronically.
Russia has expressed its fear that US missile shield jeopardizes Russian national security, since US plans to found its antimissile radar to Czech and ten rockets to Poland to keep away a possible attack from Iran.
The Iskander rockets have a range of 50-400 kilometres.
(Ref. BBN)
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Stepan Vlassov07 Nov 2008 15:49
Let me see. What would be a positive solution to a negative problem here? One possibility would be for the FSB to quit its jobs and withdraw all the cash they have stashed in Switzerland and go to Cyprus and Beacon Beach and the Crimea and Harrods and not bother anyone anymore and spend that money. Another possibility would be for Russia to stop being a pain in the ass and a troublemaker, which is a very tall order but not totally absolutely inconceivable (when pigs can fly?), and finally of course there would be the prospect of all of the colonists who came during the Soviet occupation period to decolonize spontaneously and leave the Balts alone, but that too would be just too easy of a solution, yes-no? How are those some positive solutions for a negative problem? I mean Russia could just turn normal and mind its own business. Wow. What a colossal insight. What a difficult idea to turn into reality. What's stopping the Russians?
to -- Maxim de la Trine07 Nov 2008 09:33
Maxim, the first sentence in your comment is incoherent.
No worries. It still serves your purpose in commenting here: firstly, to tell us that you know everything and, secondly: that we deserve your scorn.
Maxim06 Nov 2008 16:57
It's a shame that a topic such as this one which should be taken as the strongest warning in years that Russia means business is instead degraded by the foolishnes and selfishness of language barriers. Get a life-the point of the article is clear enough. What can you do to turn this negative problem into a positive solution? I'll bet you nothing at all. Which means why did you bother to comment on it in the first place?
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