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European Missile Defense System as a New Iron Curtain

22:45 04/05/2012 RIA Novosti military commentator Konstantin Bogdanov

An international conference on missile defense in Europe opened in Moscow on May 3. Washington and Moscow – the event’s major players – are still unable to find common ground: Russia insists that the missile defense system in Europe poses a threat, and the West deliberately shrugs off these concerns.

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