NMD SEEN ELIMINATING RUSSIA'S SUPERPOWER STATUS. Writing in
"Literaturnaya gazeta," No. 12, commentator Mikhail Urusov
said that one of the reasons Moscow is so concerned by U.S.
plans to build a national missile defense is that it would
make "Russia's sole remaining superpower attributes all but
worthless." PG
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