The cornerstone of strategic stability is the 1972 ABM Treaty, … The treaty created the possibility for predictability in the nuclear sphere and progress on the way towards nuclear disarmament not only for the USSR...

The destruction of the 1972 ABM Treaty will result in the annihilation of the whole structure of strategic stability and create prerequisites for a new arms race including one in outer space,

The level of preparedness at the present time has allowed making several successful launches from positional areas, air and sea missile carriers. Early warning systems have timely detected all launches of Russian and foreign inter-continental...

We have effective nuclear weapons, and we are not trying to increase their number but rather to improve their quality and effectiveness, to make them hard to intercept.

It is a different kind of war, where you cannot see your enemy and where there is no front line, but nonetheless this is an entirely real threat, … Russia is not the only country...

India and China are our strategic partners and we cooperate with them on a very wide range of questions, … Three-sided exercises are possible in principle but then we should have to then move to...

This means that about 35,000 men of the non-combat personnel will be laid off within the next five years, including some staff members of military chairs and other dual-purpose structures. It is also planned to...

A scrupulous investigation into the accident has been conducted within a month’s time, as was promised. It was established that outrageous violation of the instructions by senior officials of the Russian Pacific Fleet was the...

less worried now, than at the beginning of the year, that either side could take measures of some sort liable to endanger security.

I’d really like to do it. I’ve heard a lot of good stories from my team-mates.

The agreement on the Black Sea fleet base is one part of a bilateral treaty, the second part of which contains recognition of mutual borders. Trying to revise the treaty would be fatal.

Lowering the threshold for use of atomic weapons is in itself dangerous,

If such proposals come — we have not yet received them — I am sure that they will not solve the ABM issue,

It’s obvious that these were terrorist acts,

Many terrorists who have committed terrible crimes in the past and who operated in Chechnya are staying in Georgia now and of course they are full of new plans for terrorist operations, … All that...

Such plans do not limit, but in fact promote efforts by others to develop (nuclear weapons),

Against the background of the conflict, Pakistan’s testing of nuclear rockets was a provocative gesture,

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

We should reduce the number of generals and admirals to maintain the ratio of one senior officer per thousand servicemen.

The 54-billion-ruble (some 1.9 billion US dollars) surplus will be used for development purposes and acquisition of advanced equipment,

Around the end of January 2006 we shall send a group of ships from our Black Sea fleet to take part,

I believe it is total rubbish…without using the proper American word starting with ‘bull’.

At the current time, we have an organized pursuit to find the remaining criminals,

We offered the United States our help the first day of the disaster,

I know about the incident. The General Staff and the chief-of-staff have launched an investigation and we will announce its results when it is completed.

The situation in North Korea is the obvious example because the situation a year ago seemed much worse than today.

Six of the criminals were eliminated, … From the reports on the ground, all of the hostages were released.

We have a history of knowing what Afghanistan is.

They have been unified and are to be supplied both to the Strategic Missile Forces and the Navy.

The transfer of a Russian aircraft group to Sudan to join the peacekeeping operation under the auspices of the UN will begin in three days.

We are also ready for an immediate start to official talks with the United States on SALT 3.

A final decision will also depend on the extent to which international standards are upheld in Iraq, … taking a dangerous turn, which worries Russia.

We believe Europeans’ striving to have their own forces to ensure their security and to eliminate crisis situations is well founded, and are prepared to act together with them in these matters,

All the short-term plans have been coordinated. Since 2004, the ministry has been allowed to conclude long-term [three-year] contracts with defense industry enterprises.

There is no better advertisement for our arms and military hardware than a real demonstration of their capabilities in the course of practical exercises,

India has accepted our proposal to hold exercises next year, this time in Russia and in a broader format that involves several other countries, including NATO members the United States , Britain and France,

Nothing terrible happened, we all saw that and we all had sufficient time to react. Thank God we are not blind.

Russia’s proposal to enrich uranium on its territory remains on the negotiating table.

Restraining the so-called rogue nations — to use the American terminology — may be carried out more effectively from the point of view of both expense and consequences by means of common political effort,

no data or information that would suggest the governments of those three countries support terrorism.

Neither Peace Mission-2005 nor Indra-2005 posed a threat to any third countries. They did not demonstrate any plans to form a new international military-political bloc in the region either. Their main goal was to practice...

[Moscow has been helping the Northern Alliance because] the Taliban was openly supported by Pakistan, … until last week, Pakistani servicemen had taken part in war operations on the Taliban side.

If the ABM Treaty is maintained, Russia is ready for radical cuts with the United States of strategic offensive weapons to as low as 1,500 and even lower than this level,

This may happen. I suppose so,

There should be no doubt that the government will officially approve of the defense contract in December,

Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.