in other news russia's lower house of
parliament has approved the extension of
the last remaining nuclear arms control
pact with the u.s
the state duma voted unanimously to
extend the new start treaty for five
years
the vote came a day after u.s president
joe biden and his russian counterpart
vladimir putin reached a deal
and we are joined by dw correspondents
emily sherwood in moscow
and nato expert terry schultz in
brussels welcome to both of you
terry russia and the u.s as we've
mentioned have agreed to extend
the new start nuclear arms control
treaty what does it
tell you um that extension about the
russian
uh and the u.s defense strategies
well sarah what it tells us is that the
u.s russian relationship remains
constant in some ways dating back in
fact to the u.s soviet relationship
and that is that whether things are
going well as they have in some periods
between washington
and moscow or poorly as most people
would say they are right now
both sides acknowledge that you do not
use your nuclear arsenals for leverage
on other issues and so while arms
control advocates and the biden
administration will no doubt be pleased
that the russian duma acted so quickly
to approve the extension
this was basically a win-win for both
sides and it
is in fact what most experts expected to
happen and president biden has been
methodically careful
to let everyone know that he has very
real concerns with russia
on other issues and that he's not going
to let this slide so
i predict a very rocky relationship
ahead uh between president
biden and putin and emily i'm wondering
if you will agree with that um perhaps
you can give us the view there
from russia and tell us how putin
is likely to get along with president
biden
well i think russian officials from the
beginning never had
any illusions or high hopes about the
biden administration and about
kind of relations between the u.s and
russia improving
under joe biden i think in a way their
low expectations were kind of confirmed
yesterday in that telephone call between
biden and putin where apparently biden
confronted putin over hacking
accusations
he talked to him about the poisoning of
opposition politician alexey navalny
and about the conflict in ukraine sort
of demonstrating i think from the
beginning that
he wants to be tough on human rights
issues for example and i think that was
to be expected from the russian side
they knew that was
coming but in a way i think the biden
administration surprisingly enough will
be in some ways
easier to deal with for the russians
more predictable they stick to the rules
and
uh this extension of the new start
treaty
shows that in a way shows that biden is
willing to keep
to treaties trump here was known as
kind of a bull in the china shop of
international relations
leaving treaties left and right and he
in a way was a huge disappointment i
think to the russians
biden will be tough but easier to deal
with and more predictable for the
russians i think in some ways
emily sherwin with the view from moscow
terry schultz joining us from brussels
thank you to both of you
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