“I think the most important is the law on the ratification of the Agreement on the Extension of the Treaty between Russia and the United States of America on Measures to Further Reduce and Limit Strategic Offensive Arms of April 8, 2010.
The START Treaty expired on February 5, 2021.
If an agreement on its extension for five years had not been reached, the maintenance of global strategic stability would have been threatened, ”the State Duma press service quotes Volodin as saying.
Earlier, the State Duma and the Federation Council ratified the agreement submitted by Russian leader Vladimir Putin to extend the treaty until February 5, 2026.
In a telephone conversation, Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden welcomed the exchange of diplomatic notes on reaching an agreement to extend the START Treaty.
As noted in the Russian Foreign Ministry, the parties decided to extend the agreement on Moscow's terms.