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Hollow Tipped Threat; Russia plays at being a great power. Lately it has been rattling its saber--with more swagger than actual bite.
Byline: Owen Matthews (With Anna Nemtsova in Moscow and John Barry in Washington)
Stolid, ramrod-stiff Sergei Ivanov is generally not one to inspire rapturous applause. Yet that's just what Russia's former Defense minister did last month when he appeared before Parliament to announce a $189 billion program to rebuild Russian military might. There would be "revolutionary" new intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarines and aircraft carriers, an early-warning radar system and a mysterious "fifth generation" fighter plane. Was it any coincidence that, days later, the commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces, Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, threatened that some of ...
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