By empty (6/24/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and his Tajik counterpart Sherali Khairullayev on Friday in Dushanbe singed transfer acts on the movable property of the Russian military base. \"The documents like the ones signed earlier permit for long-term plans of building both a Russian military base and the Nurek optical observation facility,\" Ivanov told reporters after the ceremony. \"Even though it is the most advanced electronic facility having no analogs in the world we shall always be thinking of the future and looking at decades ahead,\" he said.