Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian parliament's lower house, on Oct. 29 called for confiscating European assets in response to an EU proposal to use Russian assets for rebuilding Ukraine.
Russia ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 2000 and "had been patiently waiting ever since for the Unites States to make a similar move"
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"The attempt to purposefully deliver strikes particularly at radioactive waste storage sites is a real crime against humanity," Sergey Mironov emphasized
The results of the election came as no surprise to anyone in Russia. No one doubted that Putin's main party, United Russia, would not simply win, but maintain its constitutional majority. This result, as well as the cynical falsifications, the banning of any independent candidates from the .