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Talks on the prohibition of tactical nuclear...

Talks on the prohibition of tactical nuclear weapons deployment in third countries should be the next step in arms control, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.


North Korea has set up a "peacetime firing...

North Korea has set up a "peacetime firing zone" along its maritime border with South Korea, Seoul"s Yonhap agency reported.


The new Russian-U.S. strategic arms reduction...

The new Russian-U.S. strategic arms reduction treaty to be signed soon, contains no clauses making it easier for the U.S. to build a missile shield posing a threat to Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

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Russia"s State Duma has welcomed Ukrainian...

On Tuesday, Yanukovych told the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"s spring session that the famine could not be considered genocide as it was "a common tragedy of the Soviet people."

"We welcome the new constructive approach to historic problems, which was shown by [Ukrainian President] Viktor Yanukovych in Strasbourg yesterday. In return, the Russian parliamentarians are always open to a comprehensive dialogue, based on facts and historic truth, but not on emotions," Gryzlov said.

Yanukovych said considering the Great Famine (Holodomor) of the Ukrainian SSR in the 1930s as genocide as "incorrect and unfair" because it affected Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.

Ukrainian nationalists say Russia, as the legal successor of the Soviet Union, should bear responsibility for the famine in which more than 3 million people perished in Ukraine.

Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko struggled for international recognition of the famine

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