President Dmitri Medvedev orders missiles deployed in Europe as world hails ...

Russia has some change ready for Obama
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... “Change”, in this case, consists of missile deployments on the frontiers of NATO. Russian president Dmitri Medvedev announced the move yesterday in a speech that never once mentioned the new American President-elect, but caustically criticized the Western approach to Moscow. Medvedev also reversed course on missile disarmament in western Russia: President Medvedev ordered missiles to be stationed up against Nato’s borders yesterday to counter American plans to build a missile defence shield. Speaking within hours of Barack Obama’s election, Mr ...

Missiles of November
baldilocks — Russia takes the opportunity to test welcome President-elect Obama to the world stage . President [Dmitry] Medvedev ordered missiles to be stationed up against Nato’s borders yesterday to counter American plans to build a missile defence shield. Speaking within hours of Barack Obama’s election, Mr Medvedev announced that Russia would base Iskander missiles in its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad – the former German city – next to the border with Poland. He did not say whether the short-range missiles would carry nuclear warheads. Taking advantage of the ...

Feeling melancholy today
Sister Toldjah — ... to cut funding for “unproven” missile defense programs, a promise that should prove interesting to see whether or not will hold up considering the first test he rec’d as president-elect came from Russian President Medvedev’s order to station missiles on the Polish border the day after Obama was elected, in response to the US’ plans to build and place a missile defense shield system in Europe as a defense against potential Iranian aggression. It goes without saying that this is a ...