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Russia renews missile threat over US shield: Medvedev

Successful test for new Russian nuclear sub: report
The latest Russian nuclear submarine returned to a navy shipyard in the country's north on Friday after a series of tests at sea that an official labelled successful, RIA Novosti news agency reported. "The sailors executed their mission excellently," Nikolai Kalistratov, director general of the Sevmash shipyards, said of the tests of the Yury Dolgoruky sub. The sub is expected to be armed with Bulava ballistic missiles, which are currently being tested, the agency reported. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the Sevmash shipyards in Severodvinsk earlier this month.
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 L'Aquila, Italy (AFP) July 10, 2009
 President Dmitry Medvedev renewed a threat on Friday to deploy missiles in Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad near Poland if Washington goes ahead with its missile shield plans in Europe.

"If we cannot agree on this question (missile defence) then you know the consequences," he told reporters after a G8 summit in L'Aquila central Italy.

"I have nothing to add and what I said in my address to the nation remains valid."

Medvedev in his speech in November warned that Moscow would deploy missiles in Kaliningrad, a Russian territory wedged between Poland and Lithuania, if the United States pressed on with its missile defence plan.

In 2008, Poland and neighbouring Czech Republic signed preliminary agreements with then president George W. Bush's administration to install missile silos and radar bases respectively on their soil.

Bush's successor Obama has launched a review of the controversial system but has nonetheless said Washington will move forward with the system as long as there is an Iranian missile threat.

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MISSILE DEFENSE
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 Warsaw (AFP) July 8, 2009
 Washington has calmed concerns that in a drive to rebuild ties with Russia it could drop a plan to set up a US anti-missile base in Poland, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Wednesday. "I'm reassured," Sikorski told reporters after he was briefed by US Assistant Secretary of State Stephen Mull on this week's Moscow summit between US President Barack Obama and his Russian ... read more






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