U.S. and Russia Still Dominate Arms Market, but World Total Falls
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The value of all weapons deals worldwide was more than $25.6 billion in 2003, the third consecutive year of decline.
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China and Russia challenged the United States at a disarmament debate Tuesday by formally presenting a plan to ban weapons in space
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A dispute over access for  U.S. meat to the Russian market helped frustrate U.S.-Russian  talks on a deal for Russia to join the World Trade  Organization, America&#039;s top trade negotiator said on Saturday.
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The United States and Russia must unite to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction rather than drifting into a new Cold War, the authors of a project to secure the former Soviet nuclear arsenal said on Monday.
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Russia's leading aluminum firm, RUSAL,   will take over its main competitor SUAL and the aluminum assets   of Glencore to create the world market leader, two sources   close to the deal told Reuters on Wednesday.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 20 -- An increasingly angry dispute over U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense system in Central Europe is adding strain to already fragile U.S.-Russian relations.
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China and Russia challenged the United States at a disarmament debate Tuesday by formally presenting a plan to ban weapons in space Â a proposal that Washington has called a diplomatic ploy by the two nations to gain a military advantage.
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A Russian defense official said the country will not build up arms when it suspends participation in a key Cold War-era treaty, news agencies reported Wednesday, while another official warned that Russia could pull out of the pact altogether.
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Russia's leading aluminum firm, RUSAL,  will take over its main competitor SUAL and the aluminum assets  of Glencore to create the world market leader, two sources  close to the deal told Reuters on Wednesday.
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BERLIN, May 31 -- Russia and the United States sparred yet again Thursday, continuing a war of words that has raised tensions across the Atlantic.
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WARSAW -- Despite deep differences between Europe and the United States over the Iraq war, missile defense, and NATO's future, President Vladimir Putin of Russia failed in a harsh speech to widen the dispute with Washington, according to security analysts in Poland and elsewhere.
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The chief of Russia's state arms-trading company said Wednesday that Moscow will sign a deal with the United States to tighten control over portable anti-aircraft missiles but won't restrict sales of other weapons to countries out of favor with Washington.
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MOSCOW, July 14 -- Russia on Saturday formally suspended its participation in a conventional arms treaty dating from the last years of the Cold War that limited NATO and Russian military deployments in Europe.
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A Russian Internet site selling Western pop music at knock-down prices says it will continue its methods even though the United States says it is obstructing Russian accession to the World Trade Organisation.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The United States and Russia have been granted a five-year extension to the 2007 deadline for destroying their chemical weapon stockpiles, the international organization overseeing the process said Monday.  U.S.
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Blocked from buying U.S. and European arms, Beijing has stocked its arsenal with Russian-made supersonic fighters and other high-tech weapons, and is investing in the development of its own cruise missiles.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany -- Russia and the United States yesterday appeared to step back from their confrontation over a planned US missile shield, as President Bush said Moscow was not a menace to Europe and the foreign minister of Russia withdrew a threat to pull out of a conventional arms treaty.