clipped from: www.timesonline.co.uk   

Speaking within hours of Barack Obama's election as the new US President, Mr Medvedev announced that Russia would base Iskander missiles in its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad next to the border with Poland.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gives a speech at the Kremlin in Moscow (Dmitry Astakhov/AFP/Getty Images)
He added that Russia was also ready to deploy its navy and to install electronic jamming devices to interfere with the US shield
"Mechanisms must be created to block mistaken, egoistical and sometimes simply dangerous decisions of certain members of the international community."

"The world cannot be ruled from one capital. Those who do not want to understand this will only create new problems for themselves and others," he said.