Romania"s initiative to host missiles as part of a U.S. missile defense shield in Europe could turn neighboring Moldova into a front-line area, Moldovan ex-president Vladimir Voronin said on Sunday.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he was shocked by the news of the death of the Polish president in a plane crash in western Russia on Saturday.
The first phase of the ongoing military reform to overhaul the structure of the Russian Armed Forces as well as its troop control and recruitment processes officially ended by December 1, 2009.