For those who're interested, here's an acurate depiction of that incident with Israel launches (convinently in English):
http://russianforces.org/blog/2013/09/russian_early_warning_system_i.shtml
by Pavel Podvig
This is what radar station actually tracked down:
This is trajectory prolongation seen from another angle:
Interesting that Podvig noticed that "throwed bone to media" as well :D
Contrary to what quite a few people assumed, everything suggests that the military were very much in control of the situation and Russian officials knew precisely what had occurred. Indeed, it is clear that someone in Moscow even had the time to stage all the theatrics like the minister of defense's report to the president, the press release, and all that. Later in the day, Anatoly Antonov, the deputy minister of defense, said that the launch triggered the state of higher readiness at the command centers of the General Staff and the Air and Space Defense Forces. I wouldn't rule out that this statement was part of the same theater - it's hard to say now.
