RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 5, No. 72, Part I, 12 April 2001
RUSSIANS BELIEVE U.S. NMD PLANS THREATEN RUSSIAN SECURITY. A poll conducted by the ROMIR agency and reported by ITAR-TASS on 11 April found that 46.5 percent of Russians believe that NMD deployment by the United States would pose "a considerable threat" to Russian national security. Meanwhile, Major General Vladimir Belous, speaking on behalf of the government-sponsored organization "Generals and Admirals for Peace and Security," said that Moscow would have to respond to an NMD deployment with a space system of its own, the Russian agency said. Colonel General Valerii Manilov, the first deputy head of the general staff, told RIA-Novosti on the same day that Russia's alternative program would include several regional missile shields rather than a single national one. 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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