Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday night to affirm the ties between the two countries. Syrian President Bashar Assad has reportedly offered to allow Moscow to deploy Russian Iskander missiles in its territory...Russia has reportedly not taken him up on the offer Norway's embassy in Moscow had received a telephone call from "a well-placed official in the Russian Ministry of Defense" who said Moscow planned "to freeze all military cooperation with NATO and allied countries," Israeli diplomatic sources said...they believed Moscow's desire to be a diplomatic player in the Middle East would temper the scope of any military hardware sales it made to Syria. ...one diplomat added that all contacts with Moscow in the past weeks indicated that Russia was satisfied with its relationship with Israel. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218602024&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull