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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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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We should reduce the number of generals and admirals to maintain the ratio of one senior officer per thousand servicemen.
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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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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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At the current time, we have an organized pursuit to find the remaining criminals,
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Six of the criminals were eliminated, ... From the reports on the ground, all of the hostages were released.
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Neither Peace Mission-2005 nor Indra-2005 posed a threat to any third countries. They did not demonstrate any plans to form a new international military-political bloc in the region either. Their main goal was to practice joint anti-terror operations,
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Lowering the threshold for use of atomic weapons is in itself dangerous,
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less worried now, than at the beginning of the year, that either side could take measures of some sort liable to endanger security.
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Many terrorists who have committed terrible crimes in the past and who operated in Chechnya are staying in Georgia now and of course they are full of new plans for terrorist operations. All that is taking place just 10 to 20 kilometers from the Russia state border, so we can't sit and watch those activities indifferently.
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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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It is a different kind of war, where you cannot see your enemy and where there is no front line, but nonetheless this is an entirely real threat, ... Russia is not the only country that faces this new threat.