MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
be tried in their home countries.Representatives of Russian, Finnish, Swedish and Estonian investigation authorities, each carrying out their own investigation into the incident, met last Thursday in Moscow.
S-300s are considered one of the world"s most effective all-altitude regional air defense systems, comparable in performance to the U.S. MIM-104 Patriot system.
Russia has dragged its feet on implementing a 2007 deal with Iran on the supply of S-300s. The contract, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, has met with strong international opposition.
Israel and the United States have been making proactive diplomatic efforts to influence Russia to drop the plans. They suspect the Islamic Republic of secretly seeking to build nuclear weapons, and have refused to rule out a military strike on its nuclear facilities.
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