The Russian counterpart to the Safeguard system was the Soviet A-35 anti-ballistic missile system, which defended Moscow and nearby missile fields.

* Don-2N radar, Russian anti-ballistic missile radar

June 13, 2002 was also the date that the United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty ( ABM Treaty ), which limited the development of a strategic anti-ballistic missile system ( to be considered strategic Aegis would need capability against the current Russian ICBMs and SLBMs ).

The technology is later reverse-engineered by the Russian Federation to shut down American anti-ballistic missile satellites from a tracking station at Socotra Island, Yemen.

The Russian A-135 anti-ballistic missile system is currently operational only around the city of Moscow, the national capital, and is far from being national in scope in Russia.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, said, the day after the U. S. elections, in his first state of the nation address, that Russia would move to deploy short-range Iskander missile systems in the western exclave of Kaliningrad " to neutralize if necessary the anti-ballistic missile system in Europe.

* Russian A-135 anti-ballistic missile system

The Russian anti-missile-missile system remains in operation today as the upgraded A-135 anti-ballistic missile system.

* 2002 – A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.

* AA-12 Adder, a Russian air-to-air missile

* Vympel R-33 ( AA-9 Amos ), the Russian air-to-air missile most similar to the AIM-54 Phoenix

The objective is reportedly to protect another parts of US National Missile Defense from long-range missile strikes from Iran and North Korea, but Czech PM Mirek Topolánek said the main reason is to avoid Russian influence and strengthen ties to US.

Meanwhile, the Russians have their own plans to counter the threat posed by Godzilla, and a Russian control ship disguised as a freighter in Tokyo Harbor prepares to launch a nuclear missile from one of their orbiting satellites should Godzilla attack.

Meanwhile, one of the crewmembers aboard the damaged Russian vessel activates the missile ( or tries to deactivate it, depending on the film version ), which is set for a countdown, before succumbing to his injuries.

Unfortunately, the city is faced with a greater threat when the countdown ends and the Russian missile is launched from the satellite, leaving the Japanese government and people helpless to stop it.

By 2007 the now-Russian force, now designated the Operational Group of Russian Forces in Moldova, under the command of the Moscow Military District had withered away to a strength of some 1500 which included the 8th Motor Rifle Brigade and a surface-to-air missile regiment.

Today the ballistic missile represents the only strategic deterrent in most military forces, however some ballistic missiles are being adapted for conventional roles, such as the Russian Iskander or the Chinese DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile.

The Russian Topol M ( SS-27 Sickle B ) is the fastest ( 7, 320 m / sec ) missile currently in service

Shorter-range developments have become widely used as highly accurate attack systems, such as the US Tomahawk missile, the Russian Kh-55 the German Taurus missile and the Pakistani Babur cruise missile.

* 9К115-2 Metis-M, a Russian anti – tank missile system

Elements of missile defense are being deployed in Poland and the Czech Republic, despite Russian opposition.

Development continues, with around 100 ballistic missile flight tests ( not including those of the US ) in 2007, mostly by China, Iran and the Russian Federation.

The Russian Iskander is a quasi ballistic missile.

So, after all our journeys of the last 30 or 40 years, the disappearance of the intermediate range ballistic missile revived the old question of the supposed conventional imbalance between the Russian alliance and the North Atlantic Alliance ".

The U. S. missile defense program has proven to be the primary persistent obstacle to better relations with Russia, which views the placement of U. S. missile defense systems in Eastern Europe for defense against " the Iranian threat " similarly to how the U. S. would view placement of Russian missile defense systems in, for example, Cuba, for Russian defense against " the insidious Asian ".

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

The Ainu language has had no system of writing, and has historically been transliterated by the Japanese kana or the Russian Cyrillic.

Much of the air defense system is integrated into the Russian defense network, and in 2006 the two nations signed an agreement on the creation of a unified air defense system.

First, it marked the end of the Balkan League, a vital arm of the Russian system of defense against Austria-Hungary.

However, even here the value of cavalry was overrated and the maintenance of large mounted formations at the front by the Russian Army put a major strain on the railway system, to little strategic advantage.

Russian aircraft manufacturer Tupolev developed a version of its popular design Tu-154 with a cryogenic fuel system, known as the Tu-155.

The case system allows for a flexible word order that reflects information flow and other pragmatic concerns, as in Russian, Greek, and Latin.

These developments also encouraged Finnish nationalism and cultural unity through the birth of the Fennoman movement, which bound the Finns to the domestic governmental system and led to the idea that the Finnish Grand Duchy was an increasingly autonomous part of the Russian Empire.

The Russification of Finland and the crisis of governmental leadership in the country, following the 1899 imperial order, was the result of a collision between the ideologies of peripheral authority ( the Grand Duchy as a state of the Russian empire but a separate part of the Russian governmental system ) and central power ( an undivided Russia dominated by Saint Petersburg ).

The major reasons for rising political tensions among the Finns were the autocratic rule of the Russian Tsar and the undemocratic class system of the estates in the Grand Duchy.

The word Gulag was not often used in Russian — either officially or colloquially ; the predominant terms were the camps () and the zone (), usually singular — for the labor camp system and for the individual camps.

One of the aims of Galileo is to provide a high-precision positioning system upon which European nations can rely, independently from the Russian GLONASS, US GPS, and Chinese Compass systems, which can be disabled in times of war or conflict.

He learned Russian and Greek, employing a system that he used his entire life to learn languages — Schliemann claimed that it took him six weeks to learn a language and wrote his diary in the language of whatever country he happened to be in.

The Russian Revolution in 1917 was triggered by a combination of economic breakdown, war weariness, and discontent with the autocratic system of government, and it first brought a coalition of liberals and moderate socialists to power, but their failed policies led to seizure of power by the Communist Bolsheviks on 25 October.

Catherine the Great extended Russian political control over the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth with actions including the support of the Targowica Confederation, although the cost of her campaigns, on top of the oppressive social system that required lords ' serfs to spend almost all of their time laboring on the lords ' land, provoked a major peasant uprising in 1773, after Catherine legalized the selling of serfs separate from land.

The latest models of the Russian BMP-3 use the Arena active protection system ( APS ) that protects the vehicle from missiles and rockets with velocities from 70 to 700 metres per second.

This state lasted just over two years ( 13 December 1917 to 26 August 1920 ) before surrendering to the Bolshevik authorities, who then sought to preserve Russian control under a new political system.

In the course of developing the Russian application of Marxism, the pamphlet Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism ( 1916 ) presented Lenin ’ s analysis of an economic development predicted by Karl Marx: that capitalism would become a global financial system, wherein advanced industrial countries export financial capital to their colonial countries, to finance the exploitation of their natural resources and the labour of the native populations.

Mongolia uses the ( Russian gauge ) track system.

In retaliation they used a Russian mycotoxin to damage his nervous system and make him unable to jack into cyberspace.

" A high-ranking Russian military official said, " Poland in deploying US system opens itself to a nuclear strike.