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During an annual press conference at Russia’s Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that Russia did not violate the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances when it annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. According to him, the memorandum only prohibits Russia from using or threatening to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine.This is not the first time Lavrov has made this claim. If you’re referring to the Budapest Memorandum
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