- 15:39 10/06/2013
Resolving differences between Russia and the United States over missile defense is key to developing bilateral relations, a senior Russian lawmaker said Monday.
- 22:14 10/05/2013
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday the possible establishment of a Russian airbase in Belarus should not be seen as a response to US missile defense plans in Europe.
- 06:18 16/04/2013
Russia’s strategic forces are capable of penetrating the US missile shield and it poses no military threat to the country, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday.
- 17:05 02/04/2013
The United States will need between five and seven Ground Based Interceptors (GBI) to intercept one Russian Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile, a Russian military expert said on Tuesday.
- 21:35 27/03/2013 Original story published at 21:35 on Wednesday. Updated at 03:05 on Thursday
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday that he did not see a joint Russia-NATO missile shield in Europe as the most efficient option.
- 07:42 26/03/2013
Russian and US defense chiefs during a phone conversation on Monday agreed to resume missile defense talks at the deputy minister level, the office of the Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said in a statement.
- 21:14 25/03/2013
Russia wants to resume regular consultations with the United States on a range of security issues, including missile defense, a top military official said Monday.
- 19:55 21/03/2013
A senior Russian diplomat said on Thursday that the United States has provided new information on its missile defense program that Moscow will study in detail.
- 19:36 20/03/2013
Security officials from Russia and the United States will meet in May to discuss a recent US decision to curtail its planned European missile defense system, a senior Russian defense official said on Wednesday.
- 04:55 19/03/2013
The United States should explain to Russia what changes it made in its European missile defense plans before Moscow draws its conclusion, a Defense Ministry official said on Tuesday.
- 19:54 17/03/2013
Washington’s plans to abandon a key part of a European missile defense plan strongly opposed by Russia are ‘no way’ linked to Moscow, The New York Times has reported citing a Pentagon spokesman.
- 07:52 08/03/2013
US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio he expected the two countries to hold talks on missile defense issues this year.
- 12:10 26/02/2013
Russian diplomatic sources have expressed optimism about a possible breakthrough in missile defense negotiations at Tuesday's foreign ministers’ meeting in Berlin, although their US counterparts were more reserved and said they expect no “major” breakthroughs, a respected Russian newspaper reported on the day of the talks.
- 09:02 23/02/2013
Despite the general progress in Russian-US relations, Russia and the West could face a serious crisis if the sides fail to resolve the standoff over the deployment of a US missile shield in Europe, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.
- 19:43 31/01/2013
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed hope again on Thursday for progress in missile defense talks with Russia in 2013.
- 22:03 27/01/2013
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday he sees “no flexibility” in a dispute over US missile defense plans, warning that a new arms race could emerge if talks fail.
- 04:59 04/01/2013
The United States is still interested in missile defense cooperation with Russia, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Thursday.
- 13:09 12/11/2012
Russia will “react in the sharpest manner” to any US ships equipped with the Aegis combat system attempting to sail by its shores, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told RIA Novosti in an interview.
- 14:15 08/11/2012
Russia hopes that US President Barack Obama will demonstrate a greater willingness to compromise on NATO plans for a missile shield in Europe during his second term of office.
- 07:57 26/10/2012 WASHINGTON, October 26 (RIA Novosti)
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has successfully conducted its largest and most complex missile defense flight test ever, involving the simultaneous engagement of five ballistic missile and cruise missile targets.
- 12:11 18/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 18 (RIA Novosti)
Russia may deliver a "technical response" to NATO over its plans to deploy a European missile defense program, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday.
- 12:51 10/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti)
A Russia-NATO Council meeting at the ministerial level should take place by the end of 2012, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
- 21:52 28/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and the United States could still reach agreement on the missile defense issue but time is running out, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday.
- 15:55 27/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 27 (RIA Novosti)
A compromise with Moscow on U.S. missile defense system in Europe is possible despite the current deadlock, NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow said on Thursday.
- 22:55 11/09/2012 SOCHI, September 11 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s recent criticism of Russia justifies Moscow’s approach toward the mooted American missile shield in Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
- 15:55 07/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile will have a 5-ton warhead, which is four times that of its predecessors, a former military commander said on Friday.
- 12:18 06/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 6 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said U.S. President Barack Obama is willing to revive deadlocked talks on a planned U.S. missile shield in Europe, but that a military lobby in Congress and the "conservative" State Department are holding him back.
- 16:13 04/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 4 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. President Barack Obama believes Washington and Moscow can cooperate on a planned U.S.-led missile shield in Europe, but is determined to move forward with the plans regardless of Russia's stance, according to the Democratic Party's 2012 national platform.
- 05:17 29/08/2012 WASHINGTON, August 29 (RIA Novosti)
The United States welcomes Moscow’s willingness to further reduce nuclear weapons and reiterates that American missile shield in Europe is not aimed against Russia, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State said.
- 19:03 20/08/2012 HELSINKI, August 20 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow warned on Monday that the implementation of the European missile defense project could become a throwback to the Cold War era.
- 17:51 11/08/2012 WARSAW, August 11 (RIA Novosti)
Poland wants to cooperate with France and Germany on the establishment of its own missile defense system, Polish Press Agency reported on Saturday, quoting Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak as saying.
- 21:07 04/08/2012 WARSAW, August 4 (RIA Novosti)
Poland needs its own missile defense shield while the agreement with the United States on the deployment of an anti-ballistic-missile defense system on its territory was “a mistake,” Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said in an interview with the Wprost magazine, published on Saturday.
- 05:51 26/07/2012 WASHINGTON, July 26 (RIA Novosti)
Washington and Warsaw keep closely discussing the deployment of a U.S. new-generation ballistic missile defense interceptor site in Poland by 2018, Pentagon spokesman George Little said.
- 00:28 10/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 10 (RIA Novosti)
The chief of Russia's Armed Forces General Staff, Gen. Nikolai Makarov, will arrive on Tuesday to the United States on a three-day working visit focusing on U.S. missile defense plans
- 07:31 04/07/2012 WASHINGTON, July 4 (RIA Novosti)
NATO members have pledged to provide more than $1 billion to ensure the operation of the European missile defense system, Frank A. Rose, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, said on Tuesday.
- 04:00 04/07/2012 WASHINGTON, July 4 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. State Department has called on Russia to cooperate on European missile defense to become assured that the defense shield will not harm its deterrent.
- 05:14 30/06/2012 WASHINGTON, June 30 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will not start a new round of talks on further arms reductions until Washington changes its stance on the global deployment of U.S. missile defenses, especially in Europe, a senior Russian diplomat said.
- 06:20 20/06/2012 LOS CABOS (Mexico), June 20 (RIA Novosti)
The missile defense dispute between Russia and the United States will not be resolved regardless of whether President Barack Obama will be re-elected in November, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
- 18:19 14/06/2012 KORENOVSK (Krasnodar Territory), June 14 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has every possibility to provide a proper response to the projected deployment of a U.S. missile shield in Europe, though Moscow would like to see the U.S. plans revised, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 15:45 03/06/2012 KIEV, June 3 (RIA Novosti)
NATO is ready to interact with third countries, including Ukraine, on an individual basis to raise anti-ballistic missile defense efficiency, NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy Dirk Brengelmann said on Sunday.
- 03:22 02/06/2012 PARIS, June 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will hold partner-like dialogue on missile defense with Western countries if it has guarantees that the missile shield is not directed against it, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday
- 15:33 23/05/2012 CHISINAU, May 23 (RIA Novosti)
Moldova may become an indirect partner in construction of a European missile shield and receive missile warning data from radars deployed in neighboring Romania, Moldovan Defense Minister Vitalie Marinuta said on Wednesday.
- 18:10 22/05/2012 WARSAW, May 22 (RIA Novosti)
Poland has warned Moscow against interfering in NATO’s plans concerning the deployment of a missile shield in Europe as Russia is not a member of the military alliance, a high-ranking Polish official said on Tuesday.
- 22:49 21/05/2012 CHICAGO, May 21 (RIA Novosti)
NATO member states voiced their regret over Russia’s stance on the military alliance’s mooted missile shield in Europe, reiterating that the shield is not threatening the Russian national security.
- 16:52 21/05/2012 KRAKOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow recapitulated its position on European missile defense Monday, saying it will reserve the right to retaliate unless it receives legal guarantees that a NATO missile defense will not be directed at it.
- 05:28 21/05/2012 CHICAGO, May 21 (RIA Novosti)
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has announced the “first step” of a European missile defense system at a NATO summit in Chicago.
- 04:15 21/05/2012 CHICAGO, May 21 (RIA Novosti)
NATO will continue its dialogue with Russia on the establishment of a European missile defense system, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Sunday.
- 03:19 11/05/2012 WASHINGTON, May 11 (RIA Novosti)
The United States and NATO will proceed with its European missile defense program despite Russia’s concerns while continuing to seek Moscow’s cooperation on the issue, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon said.
- 11:34 08/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will only be able to adopt a new 100-ton liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) intended to penetrate the US missile defense system by 2022, the manufacturer said on Tuesday.
- 19:37 07/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday urged the Foreign Ministry to stick to the provisions of the new Russia-U.S. Start treaty and push for guaranties that the U.S. missile shield in Europe will not be aimed against national nuclear facilities.
- 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.
- 14:43 04/05/2012 SOFRINO, May 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russia could offer use of its massive Don-2NP radar system near Moscow as part of an agreement with NATO on a European missile defense plan to counter medium and long-range missiles, Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said on Friday.
- 01:58 04/05/2012 WASHINGTON, May 4 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. Department of State said it was ready to intensify its efforts to find a mutually acceptable European missile shield solution hours after Russia threatened military countermeasures.
- 14:28 03/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russia does not exclude preemptive use of weapons against [NATO] missile defense systems in Europe but only as a last resort, the Russian General Staff said on Thursday at a missile defense conference in Moscow.
- 11:58 03/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti)
Talks between NATO and Russia over U.S. plans for a projected missile defense system in Europe remain at loggerheads, Russia’s Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Thursday.
- 23:50 01/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 1 (RIA Novosti)
NATO is likely to make new decisions on the further deployment of the European missile defense shield, a stumbling point in Russian-U.S. relations, during the upcoming alliance’s summit in Chicago, Russian Deputy Defense minister Anatoly Antonov said on Tuesday.
- 06:59 26/04/2012 BRUSSELS, April 26 (RIA Novosti)
Participants from 50 countries will attend a missile defense conference in Moscow on May 3-4, Chief of the Russian General Staff, Army Gen. Nikolai Makarov said.
- 10:54 25/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 25 (RIA Novosti)
Outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday relieved Dmitry Rogozin of his duties as Russia's representative to NATO over a planned U.S.-led missile shield in Europe, the Kremlin's press service said.
- 19:22 24/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 24 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow reiterated on Tuesday it may deploy Iskander theater ballistic missiles in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad that will be capable of effectively engaging elements of the U.S. missile defense system in Poland.
- 01:58 24/04/2012 WASHINGTON, April 24 (RIA Novosti)
The United States is not preparing for a NATO-Russia Council meeting during a NATO summit on May 20-21
- 14:29 20/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 20 (RIA Novosti)
Russia failed to sway Italy on NATO’s missile defense shield that is to be deployed in Europe, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Friday.
- 02:30 19/04/2012 WASHINGTON, April 19 (RIA Novosti)
Missile defense cooperation with Russia, including the use of Russian radars, would benefit the United States, Director of the Missile Defense Agency Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly said.
- 07:58 13/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and the United States cannot yet agree on missile defense, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
- 12:15 04/04/2012 BAKU, April 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday described as "arrogant" a recent statement by U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul on missile defense.
- 18:30 03/04/2012
U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul, the former advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama on Russia and a Stanford professor, speaks with RIA Novosti correspondent Anastasia Markitan about Russian-U.S. missile defense talks and the future of the ‘reset’.
- 04:39 29/03/2012 WASHINGTON, March 29 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. President Barack Obama hopes to reach a compromised agreement with Russia on the American missile defense system in Europe next year or in 2014, Josh Earnest, White House’s deputy press secretary, said.
- 18:06 28/03/2012 BRUSSELS, March 28 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Defense Ministry will invite NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Wednesday to attend an international conference on missile defense in Moscow on May 3-4, a senior defense official said.
- 06:35 28/03/2012 WASHINGTON, March 28 (RIA Novosti)
Over 40 U.S. Republican senators said in a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama they would oppose any attempt to limit U.S. missile defense capabilities.
- 12:46 27/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti)
A live microphone has captured U.S. President Barack Obama telling Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev he will have more room to negotiate on missile defense after the November election.
- 19:14 26/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 26 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
The deployment by the Kremlin of tactical weapons to protect against a planned U.S.-led missile shield in Europe would be to squander funds that could be used to improve living standards in Russia, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday.
- 20:43 25/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 25 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. missiles planned for basin in Europe have no capability against Russian missiles, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul said on his Twitter account on Sunday.
- 16:57 23/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 23 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Russia is still open for dialogue on a planned U.S. missile shield in Europe, but opportunities for discussion are decreasing as the system moves closer to becoming a reality, President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Friday.
- 14:28 23/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 23 (RIA Novosti)
A Euro-Atlantic security community is still a myth, but must become a reality, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday at the Euro-Atlantic Security Conference in Moscow.
- 13:08 23/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 23 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will make a wide-ranging statement on elements of Euro-Atlantic security on Friday, including U.S. plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe.
- 04:46 22/03/2012 WASHINGTON, March 22 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. has never provided Russia with secret information concerning the deployment of its missile shield elements in Europe
- 05:59 21/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 21 (RIA Novosti)
The United States has never provided Russia with a secret information concerning the deployment of its missile shield elements in Europe, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
- 15:41 20/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 20 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev said the country must be prepared to respond by 2017-2018 to deployment of a missile shield in Europe.
- 13:49 12/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 12 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
The U.S. has said it is willing to disclose classified information to Russia on the missile defense shield to be deployed in Europe, a move that a military analyst said could solve the impasse over the American program.
- 22:55 07/03/2012 WASHINGTON, March 7 (RIA Novosti)
The United States indicated on Wednesday that it still expects Russia to cooperate on the missile defense issue but that the plan will go ahead anyway.
- 17:15 07/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 7 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Defense Ministry will hold an international conference on missile defense on May 3-4, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday.
- 13:36 06/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 6 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian president is unlikely to attend a NATO summit in Chicago if the missile defense issue is not on its agenda, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday.
- 18:24 29/02/2012 KALININGRAD, February 29 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has seen no progress in missile defense talks with NATO, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday.
- 18:13 21/02/2012 TATISHCHEVO (Saratov Region), February 21 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will continue with the overhaul of its missile defense unless the United States drops its plans for a European missile shield or proposes a scheme for a joint effort, the Russian president said on Tuesday.
- 20:27 09/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti)
This month a new radar of the Voronezh class will be put on alert duty near Russia’s second largest city of St. Petersburg as part of Russia’s early warning system, a missile defense spokesman said on Thursday.
- 11:08 05/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will build a reliable aerospace defense system to effectively counter NATO missile threats, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Sunday.
- 16:30 04/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 4 (RIA Novosti)
There has been no shift on the issue of a European missile defense system, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.
- 02:40 03/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti)
In a documentary aired by Russian state television on the eve of a global security conference in Munich, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reiterated his confidence that U.S. missile shield plans were aimed at undermining Russia’s defense capabilities.
- 16:32 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and NATO are planning to hold joint computer-simulated missile defense exercises in Germany in March, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said on Thursday.
- 18:15 27/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on Friday proposed setting up a government body responsible for consolidating efforts aimed at the creation of an effective aerospace defense network in the country.
- 07:06 20/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
The United States and its NATO allies already have about one thousand missiles capable of intercepting Russia’s intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Russian deputy premier in charge of defense said.
- 10:44 17/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti)
A NATO missile defense radar deployed in Turkey has been put into operation, CNN quoted a Turkish foreign ministry spokesman as saying.
- 09:47 13/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 13 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. State Department’s top arms control official has said the Obama administration will not give Russia any legally binding guarantees that U.S. missile defenses in Europe will not impact Russia’s strategic deterrent.
- 03:40 10/01/2012 WASHINGTON, January 10 (RIA Novosti)
The United States wish more progress has been made in missile shield talks with Russia
- 18:03 27/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russia successfully test launched an RS-18 (SS-19 Stiletto) intercontinental ballistic missile from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, Defense Ministry spokesman Vadim Koval said.
- 15:10 22/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is ready for constructive dialogue on missile defense with its Western partners but hopes for give and take, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
- 16:44 20/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 20 (RIA Novosti)
Russia carried out a successful test of a short-range interceptor missile on Tuesday as a part of its effort to develop a domestic missile defense shield, the Defense Ministry said.
- 14:42 16/12/2011 VLASIKHA (Moscow region), December 16 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will develop a new liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile to overcome the U.S.’s prospective missile defense system, Strategic Missile Forces chief Lt. Gen. Sergei Karakayev said on Friday.
- 21:08 15/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s new anti-missile radar station in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad will become fully operational by the middle of 2014, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov told the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily.
- 16:38 09/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti)
Russia may skip the 2012 Russia-NATO Council summit in Chicago if U.S-Russian talks on the European missile defense shield fail, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday.
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