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Military NATO Interview Politics

This world is imperfect, get armed and ready

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Published 17 March, 2009, 23:17

“President Medvedev’s words that Russia cannot afford to have a feudal military any more simply mean that there are still threats in this imperfect world to be dealt with,”

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says analyst Maksim Bratersky from the Moscow Higher School of Economics.

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