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An accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO would force Russia to strengthen its defenses and stop all negotiations for a nuclear-weapon-free area of the Baltic: Dmitry Medvedev, the vice president of the National Security Council said today in Moscow. , the man so close to Vladimir Putin that he was chosen in 2008 to take his place in the presidential elections, and was elected to hold the post of president of the Russian Federation until 2012.