The Arctic as a resource base
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
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Publish date: March 20, 1998
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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One of the key ingredients of (the) next summit meeting will be to build on our overall proliferation and arms control agenda and that certainly includes spelling out in greater detail and beginning the work on START-3. That can’t happen until START-2 is ratified by the Duma, quoted Reuters White House spokesman Mike McCurry.
The reaction from the State Duma was similar to the one pronounced earlier this year: the Russian parliament may consider the issue of ratification in the first part of 1998, giving no guarantee ratification will actually occur.
The START-II agreement, the acronym for the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, was signed by the two presidents in January 1993, but only the U.S. Senate has ratified it so far. The treaty calls for reduction of the Russian nuclear strategic arsenal, down to 3250 nuclear warheads. In March 1997, the two presidents, at their meeting in Helsinki, agreed to prolong the time period for the dismantling operations from 2003 until December 31, 2007.
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
As uranium supplies from Russia fall under the shadow of potential sanctions, and while Ukraine’s allies look to wean themselves off nuclear fuel produced by Moscow’s Rosatom corporation, owners of left-for-dead mines in the US are looking to revive their deposits.
The European Union doubled its purchases of Russian nuclear fuel in 2023, data from Eurostat and the UN’s international trade service Comtrade show.
The output of Russian nuclear power plants in 2023 decreased by 2.8% compared to 2022. A decrease in output occurred for the first time in 10 years a...