[Global Network Report] According to TASS and other media reports on the 8th, the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) passed a document on Russia's abolition of an agreement with the United States on the disposal of weapons-grade plutonium.

According to another report by RIA Novosti, Russian State Duma Chairman Volodin said that the above decision was in Russia's interests, and this agreement "should have been abolished long ago".

Russia and the United States signed the Uranium Management and Disposal Agreement in 2000. Under the agreement, the two sides must convert at least 34 tons of arms-grade uranium into civilian nuclear fuel.In October 2016, the Russian side said that Russia suspended the implementation of the Uranium Management and Disposal Agreement in view of a series of unfriendly actions taken by the United States towards Russia.