"The USA is inundating Eastern Europe with new weapons - a new base in Bulgaria, another base in Romania, a (missile interceptor) site in Poland, a radar in the Czech Republic," the president said. "What are we supposed to do? We cannot just observe all this and continue to keep our obligations under the treaty," Putin said

Russia's presidential Security Council said Monday it was developing a new national military doctrine. While it did not mention the United States, the statement referred to the strengthening of NATO as one of the global policy factors that explain the need for Russia

Russia's foreign minister Tuesday reaffirmed Moscow's concern over U.S. plans to deploy missile defense sites in Europe, saying Russia would respond but would not enter a new arms race.

Russia-U.S. relations again begin to resemble the Cold War era. The latest developments indicate a cold front taking shape. The politicians do not seem to care much about global warming. In the past, the problems in the relations between the two nations had to do with a political rivalry. Nowadays the problems mostly relate to a military sphere

America needs a very strong army to be prepared for possible threats in the future. Russia is one of those “future threats,” the new Pentagon head Roberts Gates said. “We need a full set of measures to conduct a war, including both special military units necessary for war against terrorists and infantry troops to be able to fight against large regular armies. We do not know what changes can take place in such countries as Russia," said he

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the decree about the establishment of the Federal Agency for Military Hardware yesterday. The new organization will start working from January 1 2008 and will have only civil personnel. Its officials will work with hundreds of billions of rubles every year.

When Russia signed the contract with Iran for the delivery of 29 missile complexes Tor-M1 in December 2005, the US administration said that the contract could not comply with interests of both the USA and the region. Sergei Ivanov responded that it was a legitimate deal between the two countries, no matter if someone liked it or not

The US administration with Robert Gates as the new Defense Secretary has recently struck economic blows on 24 “targets.” The US State Department that regulates economic measures of influence decided to introduce sanctions against 24 legal entities and natural persons from ten countries. The list includes China, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Malaysia, Syria, Pakistan, North Korea, Sudan and Russia