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Russia has reliably ensured its strategic security in the long-term perspective, President Vladimir Putin said at the Plesetsk space launch centre. Russia will continue to be a nuclear power and this is a fact that other countries will have to take into account

February 18, 2004

The President announced that the Russian Strategic Missile Forces will receive new weapons systems that are unique in the world.

Russia will act above all to stand up for and protect its national interests using legal and diplomatic means. But it will also do all it can to ensure the country’s military invulnerability and be certain that the Russian Armed Forces are capable of neutralising any threat, Mr Putin said.

February 18, 2004