RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 5, No. 40, Part I, 27 February 2001
A DIFFERENT VIEW ON NMD: IT COULD HELP RUSSIA. Former FSB Director Nikolai Kovalev, who now serves on the Duma Defense Committee, told Interfax on 26 February that he believes that the U.S. intention to create an NMD system could actually serve the interests of Russia's strategic security. He said that American efforts to build NMD would be prohibitively expensive and would only succeed in alienating European governments from Washington. Meanwhile, Georgii Bovt wrote in an article published in the 24 February "Izvestiya" that Moscow risks becoming an international outcast unless it finds a new way to deal with American plans to build NMD. PG
Copyright (c) 2001. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. http://www.rferl.org
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