BLOOMBERG TV Exclusive With Russia's Ivanov Airs This Weekend

New York (ots/PRNewswire) -

- The man who could be the next Russian President tells Bloomberg:
Planned U.S. Missile System is "a new Berlin Wall."

The dispute over a planned U.S. missile system that would include
installations in Eastern Europe has plunged Russian relations with
the United States and the European Union to lows not seen since the
end of the Cold War. BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) explores this issue and
more in an exclusive interview with the leading contender to be
Russia's next President, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov,
to air this weekend on Bloomberg's "For the Record."

In the taped session, Ivanov tells Ellen Pinchuk of Bloomberg's
Moscow bureau that Russia will aim missiles at sites in Poland and
the Czech Republic where the U.S. plans to deploy an anti-missile
system, if the installation goes ahead. "Of course," Ivanov told
Bloomberg when asked if Russia would specifically target the Polish
and Czech sites.

During the interview, which took place at the White House of
Russia, Ivanov said also, "In the event of the appearance of an
anti-missile system, which in our understanding is aimed against
Russia and not against a mythical Iranian and North Korean threat
which doesn't exist today, of course we must somehow react to this
and take measures," calling the planned missile system "a new Berlin
Wall."

Bloomberg asks Ivanov about the search for a successor to
President Vladimir Putin, Ivanov's own presidential intentions, and
other topics.

The full exclusive interview can be seen on BLOOMBERG TELEVISION
this weekend on "For the Record" across the UK, Middle East, and
Eastern and Western Europe. The program airs on Saturday, July 21st
at 10:30 a.m. London time with repeats throughout the weekend.

This exclusive news and follow up reports are available to the
public on BLOOMBERG TELEVISION and BLOOMBERG RADIO(R) services
worldwide, as well as to users of the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R)
service. Clips from the interviews will be archived and available via
the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service.

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