Putin offers Bush wider missile defense cooperation
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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine  - Russian President Vladimir Putin made a new counter-proposal to President George W. Bush on Monday for expanded cooperation on missile defense, an issue that has strained relations between their countries.
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe would force Moscow to target its weapons against Europe.
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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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Speaking to the country&#39;s top military brass on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia&#39;s nuclear deterrent would soon be significantly upgraded with weapons technology unmatched by other nuclear powers.
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is developing a new type of nuclear missile. Mr. Putin spoke at an annual meeting of the armed forces&#39; senior leadership.
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Russia is developing a nuclear-missile system that is unlike any weapon held by other countries, President Vladimir Putin said yesterday, a move that could serve as a signal to the
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President Vladimir Putin said he valued the partnership of President George W. Bush, but voiced suspicion the US might be behind what the Kremlin sees as efforts to isolate Russia and even destabilize it.
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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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PRAGUE, June 4 -- President Bush arrived here Monday to begin an eight-day visit to Europe, at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening to retaliate against U.S. plans for a European missile defense system by aiming some of Russia's weapons at new targets on the continent.
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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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President George W. Bush said on Monday  said he hoped that a plan for U.S. and Russian experts to  analyze each other&#39;s proposal for a missile defense shield  would be beneficial.
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US president in attempt to placate Vladimir Putin after Russian president's threat to aim missiles at western countries in retaliation.
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President Vladimir V. Putin suggested that Russia would not object to American interceptor missiles in Iraq, Turkey or at sea.
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President George W. Bush will host Russia's President Vladimir Putin in July amid friction between the two over U.S. plans to build a missile shield in Europe and U.S. criticism that Moscow is moving backward on democracy.
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President Vladimir V. Putin proposed that Russia and the West study emerging missile threats jointly.