Russians should count on themselves

As a response of NATO's anti-missile defence system, Russian authorities had decided to create their own shield, which will defend them against potencial attack from the West. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin had informed about this plan on his Twitter account on Sunday. It was response to words said by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who announced that the shield will be established to defend European population, Rogozin replied that its Russian version woul be created in the same purpose.

The negotiations about the anti-missile shield are being held for years. During previous Russia-NATO summit in Lisbon on November 2010 both sides declared cooperation and consulations on this field, but during recent months the situation had changed and it seems to get much worse. It can be connected with the growing tensions in the Middle East, especially in Syria, where Russia and China are blocking all UN resolutions against the government in Damascus.


There are also other problems - both sides claim that there are totally different reasons to install the shield. According to Russians the rockets would be established to close to their borders, while Americans insist that the shiled would be only for defensive purposes in order to defend Europe against rockets coming from North Korea and Iran.