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title: "Russian moves ahead?"
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#  Russian moves ahead?

 Written by S Johnson on 18 December 2009.

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that they had destroyed 45% of the chemical weapon stockpile – as required under the CWC – and they felt confident of destroying the rest by 2012. It’s a big hope.

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