U.S. shield makes Europe "powder keg": Putin
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday the deployment of a U.S. missile shield in Europe would turn the continent into "a powder keg".
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MAFRA, Portugal  - Russian President Vladimir Putin sparred with European Union leaders on Friday over EU plans to limit foreign investment in its energy markets and Russia's stalled bid to join the World Trade Organization.
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MOSCOW. Feb. 8 -- President Vladimir Putin said Friday that "a new arms race has been unleashed in the world" as the United States moves forward with a missile defense system in Central Europe. And he dismissed American assurances that the system was not directed against Russia as nothing more than...
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MOSCOW -- The man considered to be a leading contender to succeed President Vladimir Putin criticized a landmark Soviet-US arms treaty yesterday as a "relic of the Cold War," and promised that Russia would have a "sword" capable of piercing a US missile shield.
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Russia issued a veiled threat on Wednesday to deploy rockets in its Kaliningrad enclave bordering the European Union if the United States built a missile defence shield in central Europe.
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Less than a week before the G8 summit, tensions between the United States and Russia reached a new peak Thursday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin accusing Washington of starting a new arms race over its plans to develop a missile defense shield in Europe.
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President Vladimir Putin said in a veiled warning to Poland and other East European nations on Wednesday they risked creating fresh divisions in Europe by treating Russia as an enemy instead of a strategic ...Comment
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MOSCOW -- Russia tested new missiles Tuesday that a Kremlin official asserted could penetrate any defense system, and President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans for an antimissile shield in Europe would turn the region into a "powder keg."
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired a shot across Europe's bow by saying Russia could form a natural gas equivalent of the oil producers' OPEC cartel, even while insisting that Moscow would become a more reliable energy supplier.
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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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U.S. President George W. Bush sought to calm Russia's Vladimir Putin on Tuesday over plans for a U.S. missile defence shield in Eastern Europe, saying on the eve of a big-power summit that Russia had nothing to fear.
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Russian president says US defence shield is today's version of 1962 stand-off.
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"Politicians have to know how to respond to current uncertainties and tensions in the world. Nothing would contribute more to peace in the world than a good, stable and lasting relationship between the EU and Russia"  By Jeff MasonMAFRA, Portugal  - Russian President Vladimir Putin sparred with European Union leaders on Friday over EU plans to limit foreign investment in its energy markets and Russia's stalled bid to join the World Trade Organization.One EU source called the talks "tough, frank" and described the players as "still trying to make each other hear the other."Putin, in his final EU summit as president, took a swipe at proposals from Brussels that could prevent gas monopoly Gazprom from buying up power grids and pipelines while the 27-nation bloc revamps its gas and electricity markets. Read more
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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 of the 1960s.
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Germany's foreign minister on Monday called for a calm debate within the European Union, the NATO alliance and with Russia on U.S. plans to develop an anti-missile shield in Europe.
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COMPIEGNE, France  - Russian President Vladimir   Putin sought to reassure France and Germany on Saturday they   had nothing to fear from Moscow's growing economic clout and   held out the prospect of more natural gas for Europe.
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President Vladimir Putin has pledged that Russia would ensure stable energy supplies to the European Union.