The State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, has adopted a bill paving the way for Moscow’s withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). Signed in 1990, the CFE treaty sought to limit deployment of conventional military forces in Europe by both the Western NATO alliance and the Soviet-Era Warsaw…
Russia Renounces Cold War-Era Treaty Limiting Force Deployments in Europe
Russian Deputy Minister Says Threat of Nuclear War Is at Its Highest Point in Recent Decades
On Wednesday, a high-ranking Russian official said that the threat of nuclear war is higher now than in “the past few decades.” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov commented in an event titled “A World Without START,” as Russia sees itself in a de facto open conflict with the United States. Relations between Russia and…
Ryabkov: Russia Will Not Attack, Invade Ukraine
Russia’s deputy foreign minister on Monday reaffirmed that Moscow has no intention of invading Ukraine, but said receiving Western security guarantees is the categoric imperative for Moscow. Sergei Ryabkov, who led the Russian delegation at the security talks with the U.S. in Geneva last week, claimed there was “no risk” of a large-scale war in…
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