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Russian parliament tentatively approves arms pact
Russia's lower house of parliament on Friday gave preliminary approval to a U.S.-Russian arms treaty, but decided to delay the final vote until next month.The Kremlin-controlled State Duma voted 350-58 to approve the New START treaty in the first of three required readings. The legislators said they would proceed further after returning from the Ne...
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Obama hails US-Russia nuclear treaty
The US Senate ratified an arms control treaty with Russia on Wednesday that reduces the limit for each country's stockpile of nuclear warheads, giving President Barack Obama a major foreign policy win in the last days of this session of Congress.At his year-end news conference, Obama praised the strong bipartisan vote for a treaty he described as t...
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Russian parliament tentatively approves arms pact
Russia's lower house of parliament on Friday gave preliminary approval to a U.S.-Russian arms treaty, but decided to delay the final vote until next month.The Kremlin-controlled State Duma voted 350-58 to approve the New START treaty in the first of three required readings. The legislators said they would proceed further after returning from the Ne...
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Obama hails US-Russia nuclear treaty
The US Senate ratified an arms control treaty with Russia on Wednesday that reduces the limit for each country's stockpile of nuclear warheads, giving President Barack Obama a major foreign policy win in the last days of this session of Congress.At his year-end news conference, Obama praised the strong bipartisan vote for a treaty he described as t...
