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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Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.
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The transfer of a Russian aircraft group to Sudan to join the peacekeeping operation under the auspices of the UN will begin in three days.
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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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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.
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A scrupulous investigation into the accident has been conducted within a month's time, as was promised. It was established that outrageous violation of the instructions by senior officials of the Russian Pacific Fleet was the main cause of wrong 'swimming and diving rounds'
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If the ABM Treaty is maintained, Russia is ready for radical cuts with the United States of strategic offensive weapons to as low as 1,500 and even lower than this level,
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We have put the Cold War behind us. We no longer count our divisions and our warheads. And I am Russia's first civilian defense minister in many centuries. We have become more pragmatic.
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Because of its huge territory, Russia must devote a great deal of attention to security.
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Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient.
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The level of preparedness at the present time has allowed making several successful launches from positional areas, air and sea missile carriers. Early warning systems have timely detected all launches of Russian and foreign inter-continental ballistic missiles and carrier rockets,
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India has accepted our proposal to hold exercises next year, this time in Russia and in a broader format that involves several other countries, including NATO members the United States , Britain and France,
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The situation in North Korea is the obvious example because the situation a year ago seemed much worse than today.
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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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Russia's proposal to enrich uranium on its territory remains on the negotiating table.