Topol ballistic missile is delivered for the launch from Plesetsk launching pad, the Astrakhan Region of Russia.
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Moscow Received New Missile Defense Proposals from Washington
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has received new missile defense proposals from the United States, Igor Lyakin-Frolov from the Foreign Ministry told RBC.
“The Foreign Ministry has received new proposals from the United States. We are studying them. As soon as the proposals are studied, we will be speaking of dates for bilateral meeting,” the diplomat said.
The media reported earlier that Washington would submit new missile defense cooperation proposals to Moscow. According to Under Secretary of State John Rood, the new document would relate to admission of Russia’s experts to facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic.
When delivering the annual address to the Federal Assembly November 5, 2008, President Dmitry Medvedev vowed that Russia would deploy Iskander missile complex in the Kaliningrad Region to neutralize potential threat of the U.S. missile defense system in Eastern Europe. Electronic countermeasures against new components of the U.S. missile defense shield would be carried out exactly from that region, Medvedev specified, adding that the regiments of missile division in Kozelsk wouldn’t be disbanded.
The United States and Poland inked in August a missile defense agreement that provides for deploying U.S. ten interceptors in Poland. Washington will also build a radar station in the Czech Republic.
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