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Russia will deploy a short-range missile system in its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad bordering Poland and Lithuania, in response to US plans to set up a missile shield in the area, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday."The Iskander missile system will be deployed in the Kaliningrad region to neutralize, when necessary, the (US) missile shield," Medvedev said in his first State-of-the-Nation address to the Federal Assembly.Russia will also deploy equipment in the western region to electronically jam the US missile defense system, said Medvedev, adding that resources of the Russian N

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Two Russian pilots who were about to fly a Boeing 767 were arrested at Manchester Airport early today on suspicion they were drunk.

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