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Under the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed in 2010, which limits the size of the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia, the largest in the world, Moscow and Washington can deploy up to 1,550 nuclear warheads.
Putin’s bill was published on the website of the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, on Tuesday night.
“On January 26, 2021, Russia and the United States agreed to extend this agreement,” read the explanatory memorandum for the bill.
It states that the two parties “agreed in principle” to extend the new START contract for five years.
The state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Leonid Sluckis, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the lower house of parliament, as saying that the State Duma could consider the bill on Wednesday.
The bill was announced after Putin and new US President Joe Biden spoke on the phone for the first time on Tuesday night.
Following the call, the Kremlin issued a statement saying the two leaders had “expressed their satisfaction” with the negotiations to extend the treaty.
The Kremlin added that in the “coming days,” both sides “will ensure that this important international legal mechanism for reciprocal limitation of nuclear missile arsenals continues to function.”
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