The United States gave Moscow guarantees that its proposed anti-missile shield "will be not directed" against Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday in a first sign of progress in very hard negotiations between the two countries. "The Americans are ready to provide us with a series of measures to give us confidence and reassure us that this system is not directed against us," said Lavrov in an interview published on the website of the daily Izvestia. The Russian diplomat was referring to a US proposal to install 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a tracking radar in the...