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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Russia Considers Deploying Missile Launchers In Belarus

Russian officials are considering deploying Iskander missile launchers to Belarus as a countermeasure to American plans to place a missile defense system in Eastern Europe.

"For every action there's a reaction. The same is true of the components of a U.S. missile defense in the Czech Republic and in Poland," Colonel-General Vladimir Zaritsky, Chief of the Russian Armed Forces' rocket and artillery divisions said.

The chief of the Belarusian rocket troops Mikhail Puzikov said earlier that there were plans of buying Russian missile launchers Iskander-E to re-arm his nation's military forces.

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