Sergei Ivanov
Sergei Ivanov
Sergei Borisovich Ivanovis a Russian senior official and statesman. Ivanov was Minister of Defense of Russia from March 2001 to February 2007, Deputy Prime Minister from November 2005 to February 2007, and the First Deputy Prime Minister from February 2007 to May 2008. After the election of Dmitry Medvedev as President of Russia, Ivanov was reappointed a Deputy Prime Minister in Vladimir Putin's second government. Since December 2011, Ivanov is the Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office...
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The Northern Alliance still has a great number of Pakistani prisoners-of-war, ... the Pakistani administration decided to change its attitude towards helping the Taliban.
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We have effective nuclear weapons, and we are not trying to increase their number but rather to improve their quality and effectiveness, to make them hard to intercept.
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This means that about 35,000 men of the non-combat personnel will be laid off within the next five years, including some staff members of military chairs and other dual-purpose structures. It is also planned to do away with three hundred high-rank command posts, after which the number of generals and admirals in the Armed Forces will not top 1,100 men, meaning their reduction to the optimal proportion of one per thousand servicemen,
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We should reduce the number of generals and admirals to maintain the ratio of one senior officer per thousand servicemen.
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We are also ready for an immediate start to official talks with the United States on SALT 3.
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Restraining the so-called rogue nations -- to use the American terminology -- may be carried out more effectively from the point of view of both expense and consequences by means of common political effort,
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Such plans do not limit, but in fact promote efforts by others to develop (nuclear weapons),
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The 54-billion-ruble (some 1.9 billion US dollars) surplus will be used for development purposes and acquisition of advanced equipment,
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We have a history of knowing what Afghanistan is.
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Nothing terrible happened, we all saw that and we all had sufficient time to react. Thank God we are not blind.
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The agreement on the Black Sea fleet base is one part of a bilateral treaty, the second part of which contains recognition of mutual borders. Trying to revise the treaty would be fatal.
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Around the end of January 2006 we shall send a group of ships from our Black Sea fleet to take part,
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The cornerstone of strategic stability is the 1972 ABM Treaty, ... The treaty created the possibility for predictability in the nuclear sphere and progress on the way towards nuclear disarmament not only for the USSR and the United States, but also the whole world.
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At the current time, we have an organized pursuit to find the remaining criminals,