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Interesting words just a few days after Putin's visit with his strange words. This sounds like a shot across to bow back to President Bush.

[Truth666]

Info keeps flowing
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=3499284&startrow=11&date=2003-10-05&do_alert=0
REYKJAVIK, October 5, 2003. (RIA Novosti special correspondent Olga Semyonova) - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has named cases when Russia might use military force. "Russia might use military force, even preventively, in a number of cases when a direct military threat to the Russian Federation is arousing. First of all, when this threat is visible, understandable and unavoidable
Secondly, "force may be used if Russia's access to vitally important world regions, including regions economically or financially important for the country, is being restricted,"
"The third case is the CIS," he emphasized. "If the CIS is experiencing a complicated and unstable situation /but so far there have been no such signs/ or there is a direct threat to our fellow countrymen /by them Ivanov means Russian-speaking population, that is, Russians who after the USSR breakup remained outside Russia/ or Russian citizens, and all measures, including political, economic and international sanctions, have been of no avail, then we will hypothetically consider a possibility of preventive use of force," Ivanov concluded.