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Putin Calls for Nation's Increased Military Power
Moscow, April 22 (KCNA) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in an annual report on the government's work on Wednesday, referred to the issue of increasing the defence capability of the country.

Fund three times over the past one will be allotted to carry out the plan for military equipment, he said, stressing that the order pursuant to the state's plan for military equipment and financial support to general enterprises of the defence industry should be implemented by the appointed date.

The nation's armed forces should be fully rearmed for ten years to come, he said, adding that the defence complex of Russia has the capacity to provide the army with sophisticated weapons.

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