MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill on the suspension of a crucial arms control treaty signed by US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty that limited medium-range missiles was concluded by Russia ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree suspending Russia's compliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with immediate effect. According to the text of the decree published on the Kremlin website, President Putin ordered to suspend the implementation of the ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree suspending Moscow's participation in a key Cold War-era nuclear arms control treaty. In a statement, Kremlin said the suspension would last until the US ends its violations of treaty or until it terminates. Earlier, Washington accused Moscow of ...

Russia has denied its cruise missile violates Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Speaking at a news briefing in Moscow Chief of the Missile Troops and Artillery Branch of the Russian Armed Forces Lt.-Gen. Mikhail Matveyevsky, said Russia has fulfilled and continues to strictly observe the ...

MOSCOW - The Russian Foreign Ministry said Saturday that international security and stability will be further undermined after a draft resolution in support to the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was rejected in a United Nations vote. "A new blow was dealt to the architecture of ...

\WASHINGTON: President Trump’s threats to pull out of a major nuclear arms treaty would undermine the global basis for nuclear restraint and non-proliferation and could have implications for Asia by potentially escalating rivalry between China, India and Pakistan, all three nuclear states, ...

BEIJING: Chinese foreign ministry opposed the United States (US) announcement of withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty saying, the treaty had played an important role in easing international relations, advancing the process of nuclear disarmament, and even maintaining ...

The United States has warned Russia to respect its arms control treaty obligations.The warning came amid reports that Moscow has deployed a cruise missile unit in violation of a 1987 arms control treaty between the two countries.State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Russia is violating INF ...