RUSSIAN Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has urged US President-elect Barack Obama to drop the planned US missile shield in Eastern Europe, warning of an "adequate response" from Moscow.
"This project is aimed against the strategic potential of Russia. And we can only give it an adequate response,'' Mr Putin said on Monday at a conference on human rights law in Saint Petersburg.
"If there are not missile defence sites in Poland and the Czech Republic - there will be no retaliatory measures either.''
