Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov
US Drops Europe Missile Defense Plan – But Moscow Is Unimpressed -- Christian Science Monitor
Russia issued a cool response to the scrapping of a NATO anti-missile system much resented by the Kremlin. But experts say the cancellation could still help US-Russian relations.
Russia is officially unimpressed by a unilateral US decision to cancel the final phase of European missile defense – a program that Moscow has gone so far in the past as to almost threaten World War III over.
But despite the Kremlin's cool response to the cancellation, experts say that the US decision – which eliminates, at a stroke, Moscow's biggest single burning security concern – could nonetheless open the door toward improving US-Russian relations.
The decision, announced over the weekend by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, cancels US plans for the fourth and final stage of the European missile defense shield, which would have involved adding SM3-IIB long-range interceptor missiles to the system's mix of short-and-medium range rockets in Poland by 2018.
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More News On Russian Reaction To U.S. Plans To Scrap Europe's Missile Defense Plan
Moscow Unimpressed by Changes in US Missile Defense Plans -- RIA Novosti
Russia attacks US missile defense plans, says no concessions possible -- RT
Obama's Flexibility Not Enough to Please Putin -- Alexander Golts, Moscow Times
US change in missile defense plans is not about compromise with Russia - Pushkov -- Voice of Russia
Russia dismisses US missile defence move -- Space Daily/AFP
Russia unmoved by US missile defence shift -- The Hindu
Russia unfazed by U.S. missile defense -- UPI
Russia sees no concession in US defense plan for Europe -- Press TV (Iran)
Russia sees US’s decision to cancel 4th stage of ABM in Europe only as delay -- Voice of Russia
Russia unmoved by U.S. missile shield changes -- B92
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