Dmitri Medvedev, Russia's president, arrives to deliver his annual address to Parliament from the Kremlin's St.George Hall, in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008. Guneev Sergey / Bloomberg NewsRussia Welcomes Barack Obama With Deployment Of Nuclear-Capable Missiles -- The Telegraph
The Kremlin gave Barack Obama a glacial welcome to the world stage when Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, ordered the deployment of nuclear-capable missiles on Nato's borders for the first time since the Cold War.
In what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to rattle the president-elect, Mr Medvedev said that short-range Iskander surface-to-surface missiles would be stationed in Russia's baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, which borders EU states Poland and Lithuania.
Delivering his most aggressively anti-American speech yet, Mr Medvedev said he was ordering the deployment in retaliation to a missile defence shield that the United States wants to build in central Europe by 2011.
In comments likely to unnerve the Obama camp, the Russian leader even hinted that he was prepared to use the missiles to destroy the shield, which is to be erected in Poland and the Czech Republic.
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More News On Russia's Reactions To
The Election Of Barack Obama
The Election Of Barack Obama
Russia greets Obama with first foreign policy test -- ABC News (Australia)
Russia plans to counter U.S. antimissile system in eastern Europe -- L.A. Times
Russia to base missiles on EU border: Medvedev -- AFP
Russia Warns of Missile Deployment -- New York times
Moscow to put missiles near NATO's Poland -- Washington Times
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