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...Russian president's words were presumably timed to remind America's newly-elected president that Moscow still matters. But Medvedev's threats are not quite as tough as they might sound. The Kozelsk Division consists of 46 missiles built in 1979. The weapons have now been in service three times longer than planned and the harsh truth is that Russia is struggling to build the next generation long-range missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Challenge to Obama | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

...response, Medvedev said that Moscow had canceled the long planned dismantling of the Kozelsk ICBM Division and would deploy short-range Iskander missiles and electronic jamming systems in Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania. (See pictures of Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Challenge to Obama | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

...that so recently went in the other direction. Sometimes the gains hailed by the press as fantastic have been so slight in terms of space as not to show at all on a good sized map. Some gains seem to occur more than once, such as the capture of Kozelsk, which has been announced and cheered twice recently, with two weeks intervening. Reports like these remind one of the ones from Libya, where the British took suspiciously long to put the finishing touches on surrounded Axis "remnants," which for a time seemed permanently on the verge of final destruction. They...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rout in Slow Motion | 1/9/1941 | See Source »

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