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Adoption
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Russia’s adoption laws are
easing, with foreign par-
ents finding it easier to ap-
ply. But there are still more
children than families who
are willing to open their
homes to them.
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NIKOLAY KOROLEV_RBTH
Arms Russia Wants its Opinion Heard in Treaty Discussions
Why These
Sergei Yastrzhembsky:
Moratorium Will Not End CFE
Elections
Kosovo: European
Weapons Treaty Talks
Are
Unity in Question
Important Many experts are confident
that Kosovo will gain indepen-
dence before the year is out.
Russia delayed the decision to War. And they saw a failure of tions”) poses a fundamental The most important part of the
declare a moratorium on the NATO members to ratify the threat to Russian national se- 2007 elections is that society More on
CFE Treaty for more than seven more relevant 1999 update. curity, Kosachev claims. The and the politicians have to www.rbth.rg.ru
years. During this period, Writing on this issue, Chairman treaty also provides no provi- make a choice and change
Russia consistently tried to of the State Duma International sions for the participation of something in a situation
save the treaty by making it Affairs Committee Konstantin the newly independent Baltic when nobody wants to
realistic for the country. Kosachev expresses the belief countries that border Russia’s change anything or elect
Priorities:
that the decision to pull out will western territories. anyone new.
DARYA YURYEVA
not lead to any real strategic The parliamentarian was eager
Why Does Russia Need
MOSCOW changes in Europe, revealing to emphasize that the morato-
KIRILL TANAYEV
that Russia is actually close to rium would not be used for new
MOSCOW
National Projects?
When, in April, Vladimir Putin re-engaging with the treaty. and unjustified deployments of
announced his intention to sus- Behind the suspension of the conventional weapons. “Rus- The Russian government is implementing four large-scale
pend Russia’s participation in treaty lies not a desire to de- sia is de facto complying with Eight years of stability and high social-economic programs to improve daily life for Russians
the Conventional Forces in Eu- stroy mutual peace-assurance, the fundamental provisions of energy prices under Putin
rope Treaty, he raised a few VLADIMIR MUSALIAN_ITAR-TASS he explains, but to encourage the treaty,” he writes. The idea formed the backbone of Rus-
eyebrows. The treaty, which Konstantin Kosachev. partners to ratify the updated of the moratorium is not to ab- sia’s economic growth, but
commits 28 European coun- treaty and dispense with the solve Russian responsibility, have not been conducive to the
tries, the U.S. and Canada to obsolete one. Kosachev continues, but to re- growth of political competition
limiting military buildup in Eu- saw things differently. They The basic 1990 treaty, which turn parties to the negotiating in Russian society or the emer-
rope, was considered by many saw fundamental inadequa- has its legal foundation in So- table and put an end to the gence of new ideas outside the
a key instrument in insuring an cies in the current version of viet military space and limits “legal nonsense” that has last- pro-Putin political environ-
end to an undesirable arms the treaty, signed before the military presence in some of ed for 15 years.
-
ment.
race. breakup of the Soviet Union Russia’s most unstable re-
Russians, on the other hand, and the settling of the Cold gions (so-called “flank restric- MORE KOSACHEV ON PAGE 5 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 TURN TO PAGE 2
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