"About the basic purpose of a shield - the control of air space over Russia, some your scientists speak even."
That's untrue.
"However Russian Air Force chief Vladimir Mikhailov on Thursday played down the missile shield's potential threat to Russia.
'These systems don't provide any particular danger to us.... They have more political weight than military,' he said, Interfax reported. 'If they have money and nothing else to do with it, let them build it.'"
Russia Rejects U.S. Offer on Missile Shield
"After disorder of the USSR we have lost the spheres of influence. Now we have returned, and slowly, but persistently we return them to ourselves."
We'll see. Don't think that you have much to offer, though, except guns, tanks, and threats. Sounds like Feanor is correct.