Nato condemns Putin missile threat
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Nato condemns Russia's threat to aim weapons at Europe over the planned US missile defence shield.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Tuesday warned that deploying a U.S. missile shield in Europe  would turn the continent into &quot;a powder keg,&quot; Itar-Tass news  agency reported.
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NATO's secretary-general mounted a stout defense of Washington's missile shield plan on Monday, the day before meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin when the issue is likely to top the agenda.
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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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Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday proposed expanding an anti-missile defense system for Europe and bringing NATO on board at talks with US President George W. Bush.
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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia threatened to point Russian missiles at Europe if the U.S. builds its missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
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The head of NATO urged Russian President  Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to engage more closely with the  alliance to bridge differences over Kosovo and U.S. plans for a  missile defense shield.
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NATO said on Monday it was very  concerned at Russia&#39;s decision to suspend participation in a  landmark treaty limiting armed forces in post-Cold War Europe  amid growing tension over a U.S. missile shield.
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NATO reacted cautiously on Friday to a  Russian offer for the United States to use a Russian-controlled  radar in Azerbaijan for a missile defense shield, questioning  whether its location was ideal.
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Russia&#39;s test firing of an  intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday was in response  to U.S. steps that have upset the strategic balance, Russian  President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
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NATO said on Monday it was very concerned at Russia's decision to suspend participation in a landmark treaty limiting armed forces in post-Cold War Europe amid growing tension over a U.S. missile shield.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned that the deployment of a U.S. missile shield in Europe would turn the continent into "a powder keg".
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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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The United States and NATO on Monday criticized President Vladimir Putin's latest attack on a planned U.S. missile shield, but Western reaction was generally muted ahead of a Group of Eight encounter with Putin this week.
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir V. Putin formally notified NATO governments yesterday that Russia would suspend its obligations under the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, a major Cold War-era arms-limitation agreement, in response to US plans to deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 12 -- President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia could target nuclear missiles at Ukraine if its neighbor and former fraternal republic in the Soviet Union joins the NATO alliance and hosts elements of a missile defense system proposed by the Bush administration.
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Nato reacts cautiously to a Russian proposal to form a joint missile defence system with the US.