Nyet!

Situation: Russia wanted to build a half dozen “domed antenna structures” in the U.S. in order to “significantly improve the accuracy and reliability of its version of the Global Positioning System.”

Comments: The State Department supported the plan “as a means to mend bruised relations between the two rival nations. The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency sided with congressional critics, concerned about handing the Russians an opening to snoop on the United States within its borders.”

Result: Defense budget bill signed by President Obama contains “a measure that virtually bars Russia from building … the monitor stations.”

Still, “Administration officials on Friday sought to play down the significance of the new constraints, saying that discussions with the Russians continue but that no decisions have been reached.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/world/europe/new-law-all-but-bars-russian-gps-sites-in-us.html?_r=0