Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Pact With US

In a deal likely to bolster frosty relations between Russia and the US, a civilian nuclear cooperation pact is expected to be signed in Moscow on May 6. William Burns, the US Ambassador to Russia, and the chief of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko, are to be the signees of the deal. Given the long-standing hostility between both states, the deal will help to improve political and economic relations between the two. The pact will drive greater cooperation in areas such as the storage of nuclear materials and the development of new

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