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(FILES) Photo taken on October 5, 2005 of Russian soldiers sitting on the launcher of Tochka-M (Point-M), a short range missile, which has a range of about 44 miles (70 kilometres) prior its launch at the military training ground outside the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Russia denied that it had made any kind of secret deal with the United States in exchange for Washington shifting its position on missile defence, a foreign ministry spokesman said on September 17, 2009.
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