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The rights and wrongs of Putin's new order

Published: February 19 2007 02:00 | Last updated: February 19 2007 02:00

Russia is turning up the volume of its criticism of the arms control framework that has underpinned the international order since the end of the cold war. First the Russian military chief of staff says Moscow is contemplating unilaterally withdrawing from the INF treaty - signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 - that scrapped US and Russian medium-range nuclear missiles. Then Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, suggests the same about the CFE treaty, saying the pact to cut back conventional forces in Europe is "meaningless".

Coming hard on the heels of Vladimir Putin's attack on US unilateralism and the dangers of a "unipolar" world, made to the US defence secretary a week ago in Munich, this starts to look like a co-ordinated push, in worrying cold war language. But Russian officials insist it is simply the start of a "more candid dialogue that has been long overdue".

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