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Beefing up the military: Russia will begin a “large-scale rearming,” including updating its nuclear weapons, to counter the threat posed by NATO enlargement, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said this week. “Threats remain that can bring about local crises and international terrorism,” he told Russian generals. “NATO is not halting its efforts to widen its military infrastructure near the borders of our country. All of this demands a quality modernization of our armed forces.” Since the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO has admitted several former Warsaw Pact countries as members, as well as three former Soviet republics. Last year’s conflict with Georgia exposed some of the weaknesses of Russia’s aging military equipment.

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