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Another missile crisis

BBC News, Friday, October 26, 2007

Russian President Vladimir Putin says US plans for a missile shield could precipitate a
situation similar to the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s. The crisis saw the US and
Soviet Union go to the brink of nuclear war.

The 1962 stand-off was triggered when US spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases
in Cuba, within striking distance of the American mainland. Moscow's decision to de-
ploy these weapons in Cuba was at the time seen as a response to the build-up of pow-
erful US missiles in Europe.

Tensions were only defused when Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev agreed to dismantle the bases in return
for guarantees that President Kennedy would not at-
tack communist Cuba.

President Kennedy with pilots who President Putin said that the threat to Russia’s bor-
ders was akin to that faced by the Cuban crisis.
"Similar actions by the Soviet Union, when it de-
ployed missiles in Cuba, provoked the Caribbean cri-
sis. For us, technologically, the situation is very simi-

lar."

flew reconnaissance over Cuba

Putin moves to extend
political life

Monday 01st October, 2007
Putin moves to extend political life, BBC News, By Richard Galpin

In the second surprise announcement in as many weeks, the Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin has said it is "entirely realistic" that he will become prime minister after step-
ping down as president early next year. "And second, a decent capable and modern
person with whom I can work as a team should be elected as president."
Constitutional change? Mr. Putin, who has concentrated much power in his hands
since first becoming president more than seven years ago, has long made it clear he
wants to remain at the centre of political life in Russia after officially leaving the Krem-
lin. This scenario includes changing the constitution to transfer the executive powers
currently enjoyed by the president to the new prime minister.

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