Russia suspends participation in key arms pact
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Russia suspended its participation in a key pact limiting military forces in Europe on Saturday, fulfilling a threat after months of verbal sparring with the West.
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Europe's main security and human  rights watchdog said on Thursday it had cancelled plans to  monitor Russia's presidential election next month, citing  unacceptable restrictions imposed by Moscow.
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Russia on Wednesday rejected a NATO offer to hold a special conference on a key European arms pact and instead proposed working on a new agreement, local news agencies quoted a top defense ministry official as saying.
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Russia suspended its participation in a key pact limiting military forces in Europe on Saturday, amid deteriorating relations with the West on a range of fronts.
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Russia warned it could be driven to suspend its part in a major arms control accord after talks with NATO states ended on Friday without headway in revising a pact seen as vital for stability in Europe.
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The lack of a Russian chief negotiator has halted the work of an Estonian-Russian government commission for more than a year, according to the Estonian Foreign Minister Kristiina Ojuland.
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Russia will no longer respect a key arms treaty that limits the deployment of military forces in Europe, the Kremlin said Saturday in the latest escalation of tensions between Moscow and the West.
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Russia's president pulls out of a key Cold War arms treaty limiting the number of heavy weapons in Europe.
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Russia has no plans to mass armed forces near its Western borders after freezing compliance with a landmark arms treaty signed at the end of the Cold War, senior government and army officials said on Saturday.
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The EU Commission crisis prompts Russia to postpone this week's talks with EU leaders.
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Russia said on Saturday it had no plans  to stage a major build-up of forces following its decision to  freeze its compliance with the Conventional Forces in Europe  (CFE) treaty.
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The deal whereby Russia was to repay its debts to Paris Club creditors has been postponed for an uncertain period of time.
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MOSCOW -- Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are ''not free" for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said yesterday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
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Russia said Friday it could not rule out freezing its participation in a treaty limiting non-nuclear heavy weaponry around Europe after its attempt to overhaul the accord was rebuffed in what a diplomat called "fine, polite, elegant lip service."
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MOSCOW -- Russia said yesterday that it would expel four British diplomats and suspend counterterrorism cooperation with London in the latest step in a confrontation linked to the radiation-poisoning death of a former KGB agent turned Kremlin critic.
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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 limits NATO and Russian military deployments in Europe.
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Chechnya's Russian-backed government Thursday dismissed a rebel cease-fire declaration, saying it was a publicity stunt that could not be trusted.