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Russia ditches Kaliningrad missile threat

AFP Global Edition 144 days ago

Russia has scrapped plans to site missiles on the European Union's border after President Barack Obama shelved controversial US shield plans in Europe, a deputy official said on Saturday. "Those countermeasures, which Russia had planned in response to the deployment of US ...

Russia to ditch Kaliningrad missile threat

AFP Global Edition 144 days ago

Russia has scrapped plans to site missiles on the European Union's border after President Barack Obama shelved controversial US shield plans in Europe, a defence official said on Saturday. "Those countermeasures, which Russia had planned in response to the deployment of US ...

Russian city hunts for purged German roots

AFP Global Edition 151 days ago

Rising from the skyline of the Russian city of Kaliningrad, the high steeple of a reconstructed Gothic cathedral is a symbol of an erased German past. Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, people of the enclave have been drawn to their ...

Russia to base missiles on EU border: Medvedev

AFP Global Edition 285 days ago

Russia will place short-range missile systems on the EU's eastern border to counter planned US missile defence installations in Eastern Europe, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. "Iskander missile systems will be deployed in the Kaliningrad region to neutralise the missile defence ...

Waves of smuggled Russian cigarettes flood Europe

guardian.co.uk 286 days ago

Kaliningrad, with its frontier atmosphere, is a dangerous place to ask questions about smuggling. But this isolated Russian enclave on the Baltic is now alleged to be the home of a novel phenomenon which is alarming western authorities. Russia is accused of ...

Russia accuses US on missile shield

AFP Global Edition 289 days ago

A top Russian official on Tuesday accused the new US administration of intensifying missile defence plans and warned that Moscow sees no basis for big cuts to its nuclear arsenal. In an interview with Interfax news agency, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov ...

Russia official says backing off on missile threat

AP News 291 days ago

Russian official reportedly says suspending moves to place missiles near Polish border A Russian military official said Wednesday that Moscow was backing off a threat to deploy missiles near Poland, according to a report that may have been aimed at testing President ...

Russia drops Kaliningrad missile plans

AFP Global Edition 291 days ago

Russia has shelved plans to install missiles on central Europe's doorstep after detecting a cooling by the Obama administration towards a controversial US shield project, a military official said Wednesday. Russia had warned it would deploy Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad, a Russian ...

Russia drops plans to place missiles in Kaliningrad: report

AFP Global Edition 291 days ago

Russia has suspended plans to install Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad due to a change in attitude from the new Obama administration in the United States, Interfax quoted a military official as saying Wednesday. "The realisation of these plans has been suspended in ...

Thousands file past Russian Orthodox patriarch's coffin

AFP Global Edition 293 days ago

Russians queued in their thousands on Sunday to pay their respects at the coffin of first post-Soviet Orthodox patriarch Alexy II, Russian media reported. Over 10,000 people had filed past Alexy's open coffin since the start of his lying in state on ...

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