“MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned on Thursday that military action against sovereign states could lead to a regional nuclear war, starkly voicing Moscow’s opposition to Western intervention ahead of a G8 summit at which Syria and Iran will be discussed.
“Hasty military operations in foreign states usually bring radicals to power,” Medvedev, president for four years until Vladimir Putin’s inauguration on May 7, told a conference in St. Petersburg in remarks posted on the government’s website.”
[Source for this extract – http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-18/europe/31764888_1_prime-minister-dmitry-medvedev-arkady-dvorkovich-nuclear-programme ]
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