Putin offers radar site in Azerbaijan
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Vladimir Putin, bitterly opposed to a U.S. missile shield in Europe, presented President Bush with a surprise counterproposal Thursday built around a Soviet-era radar system in Azerbaijan rather than new defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic. Bush said it was an interesting suggestion and promised to consider it.
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Russian President Vladi mir Putin visits a victim of the besieged school at a hospital in Beslan, September 4, 2004. Putin ordered a crackdown in seething southern Russia after a school siege killed at least
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President Vladimir Putin said on Monday  he was keen to use Russia's planned global positioning system  GLONASS to look after his black Labrador Koni.
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Moscow: President Vladimir Putin stepped up Kremlin control over Russia&#39;s regions Monday and called for moves to improve security in the north Caucasus as he appointed a new government chief of staff after the Beslan school hostage tragedy.
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MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a number of anti-terrorism initiatives that would ultimately give the Kremlin greater power over everyday life.
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Russia and the United States could start  consultations next month on Moscow&#39;s offer to use jointly an  Azeri radar to protect against missile threats, Russian media  quoted a top Russian general as saying on Tuesday.
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President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, making a united stand against terrorism, announced a new program on Saturday to detect and track terrorists trying to get their hands on nuclear and radioactive materials.
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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin today reportedly revealed that his country is developing a brand new form of nuclear missile. He is believed to have said the new weapon would be unique and not like those held by other countries.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a &quot;radical renewal&quot; of government structures and operations in the north Caucasus in order to fight terror.
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Officials in Azerbaijan, a nation with a questionable human rights record and huge oil reserves, on Friday welcomed Moscow's call to use a Russian-leased radar installation in their country as the cornerstone of a proposed U.S. anti-missile system.
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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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BERLIN -- Setting an uncompromising tone before the start of the Group of Eight summit meeting in Germany on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow would be forced to find missile targets of its own in Europe if the United States built its missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday scoffed at Washington's claims that possible deployment of U.S. missile defense sites in central Europe was intended to counter threats posed by Iran and said that Russia would take countermeasures.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin promised on Thursday new nuclear weapons as part of Moscow's military build-up, saying the experience of Iraq showed the need for resource-rich countries to keep strong defenses.
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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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Russia&#39;s offer of a military base in Azerbaijan is no &quot;substitute&quot; for US plans to install a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, a top State Department official said Monday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during a meeting with leading Russian academics in Moscow&#39;s Kremlin Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004.