Russia quits the Open Skies treaty
Another blow to arms control
THERE ARE few opportunities left for Russian military officers and their NATO rivals to meet face-to-face and shoot the breeze. Soon there may be none. On January 15th Russia said that it would follow America in withdrawing from the Open Skies treaty, a decades-old arms-control pact that allows unarmed surveillance flights over 33 countries.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Grounded”
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