But they may not forget about international resonance of such steps and their threat of immediate proliferation. Yeltsin s Russia is gone. Putin s Russia is not Yeltsin s Russia. After ten years of so-called shock therapy and total destitution for ordinary citizens and wild bandit capitalism, Russia has come to realize itself as a power that wishes to find the road to prosperity for every man. And nuclear disarmament is an important step on this road.
Nuclear disarmament is an extremely important step on the road to abolish nuclear weapons forever.
Alla Yaroshinskaya, a journalist, is a former disarmament advisor to Boris Yeltsin and former member of the Russian Duma. Copyright 2000 by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Please acknowledge source and provide Foundation contact information in all copies.