Russia`s Lavrov Pessimistic About Bilateral Security Talks With U.S.
(World News Russia)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the world should not expect "considerable results in the foreseeable future" from strategic stability talks between Russia and the United States. In an October 20 speech at a nonproliferation conference in Moscow, Lavrov also described the situation surrounding the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) as a "stalemate" in which Washington "refuses to clarify" its allegations that Russia has violated the treaty. He...