Putin compares U.S. missile shield to Cuban crisis
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Russian President Vladimir  Putin drew a parallel on Friday between U.S. plans for a  missile shield in Europe and the Cuban missile crisis in 1962,  widely regarded as the closest the world came to nuclear war.
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Russia is working on new nuclear missile systems that other powers do not have in order to protect itself against future security threats, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
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U.S President George W. Bush on Tuesday sought to soothe Russia's Vladimir Putin about U.S. missile shield plans on the eve of a big-power summit that could also expose rifts on climate change and aid for Africa.
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President Vladimir Putin said Russia would go back to its Cold War stance of aiming its missiles at Europe if Washington went ahead with a plan to build a missile defence shield near Russia's borders.
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President Vladimir V. Putin proposed that Russia and the West study emerging missile threats jointly.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday the proposed U.S. missile defense shield in Eastern Europe has similarities to the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin sought anew Monday to bat down U.S. plans to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, proposing that the system be expanded and largely Russian-based.
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Russia is working on new nuclear missile systems which would be unique to Russia in order to protect itself against future security challenges, the Reuters news agency quoted President Vladimir Putin as saying on Wednesday.
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Russian President Putin  says a missile test was in answer to US plans to create a defence shield in Central Europe.
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Russia is working on new nuclear missile systems that other powers do not have in order to protect itself against future security challenges, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
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President Vladimir Putin's warning that Russia would aim missiles at Europe if the United States pursued its plan for a missile defense shield near Russia's borders is "not helpful," a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
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NATO led criticism on Monday of  President Vladimir Putin&#39;s latest attack on a planned U.S.  missile shield, but Western reaction was generally muted ahead  of a Group of Eight (G8) encounter with Putin this week.
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MAFRA, Portugal  - Russia's President Vladimir Putin drew a parallel on Friday between U.S. plans for a missile shield in Europe and the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, widely regarded as the closest the world came to nuclear war.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Europe increased the chances of a nuclear conflict.
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President Vladimir Putin is expected to assert a Russian view of global security sharply at odds with that of the United States, when he speaks at a security conference.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, with words reminiscent of the Cold War, warned Sunday that his military would respond to a planned American missile defense system near its borders by aiming its missiles at U.S. military bases in Europe.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday rejected Western criticism he is using his energy policies as a weapon, denounced the deployment of U.S. anti-missile systems in eastern Europe, and said he didn't believe in conspiracy theories in the poisoning death of a former KGB officer.