Build antimissile shield together: Russian lawmaker

Build antimissile shield together: Russian lawmaker

A senior Russian lawmaker called Saturday for Russia to be included in US plans to build a missile defence system in Europe, warning Moscow will otherwise view the antimissile shield as a threat. "Russia has every reason to be interested in close cooperation in creating Eurasian missile-defense systems," Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the State Duma, wrote in an opinion piece in the International Herald Tribune.

Why not cooperate with Russia? This is the first sensible statement on missile defense the Russians have made.