U.S. should freeze missile shield: Putin aide
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Washington should freeze development of its planned missile shield in eastern Europe while it weighs a counter-proposal from Russian President Vladimir Putin, a Kremlin spokesman said on Thursday.
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday compared the U.S. proposal to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe to the Cuban missile crisis
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Russian President Vladimir Putin turned the tables on Washington on Thursday by suggesting the United States use a Russian-controlled radar instead of U.S. anti-missile hardware in central Europe.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he still hoped to reach a compromise with the United States over its plans to deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe.
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Russia will once again aim its missiles at targets in Europe if U.S. plans to build a missile defense shield near Russia's borders go ahead, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Sunday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that U.S. missile defense interceptors could be located in Turkey, or even Iraq or on sea platforms, offering yet another alternative to an American plan for a missile shield in eastern Europe.
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MOSCOW -- Russia warned the United States yesterday it might pull out of a Cold War nuclear arms reduction treaty because of plans by Washington to build a missile shield in Eastern Europe.
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Russia hopes Washington will take seriously its objections to the U.S. missile shield plan, Russia's foreign minister said on Thursday before President Vladimir Putin's visit to the United States.
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Russia said on Saturday  its offer to the United States of joint use of a radar it  controls in Azerbaijan made a planned American missile shield  in central Europe unnecessary.
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Russia said today that it would suspend its obligations under a key cold war-era arms control treaty in response to U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield.
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Germany's defense minister on Friday urged more talks within NATO on the U.S. plan to locate elements of an anti-missile shield in Europe which has raised tensions between Russia and the United States.
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Russia said on Saturday that Washington should freeze its missile defence talks with the Czech Republic and Poland pending examination of an alternative Russian proposal on using an Azerbaijani radar site.
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Russia's top general on Thursday ridiculed U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Europe as unworkable and warned Washington that Moscow could react with military force if it felt threatened.
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Russia will once again aim its missiles at  targets in Europe if U.S. plans to build a missile defense  shield near Russia&#39;s borders go ahead, President Vladimir Putin  was quoted as saying on Sunday.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that Washington and its allies cannot be divided on their mutual defense as a bitter row escalated over a proposed US missile defence shield in eastern Europe.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that United States missile defence plans could worsen the Iranian nuclear stand-off and urged Washington to freeze work on the issue with the Czech Republic and Poland.