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Russian parliament committee suggests discussing new policy of nuclear deterrence

Recommendations were proposed at a roundtable on the development of the Russian Armed Forces "in conditions of changing forms and modes of military combat"
Chairman of the Russian Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Bondarev Valery Sharifulin/TASS
Chairman of the Russian Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Bondarev
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MOSCOW, November 21. /TASS/. The Russian Federation Council’s Committee on Defense and Security has suggested that the Security Council discusses Russia’s new policy of nuclear deterrence.

The text with recommendations was circulated by the press service of the committee head Viktor Bondarev. The Russian Security Council and its inter-departmental commission for military security were asked to consider revising "the basic principles of the Russian Federation's policy in the sphere of nuclear deterrence," the document said.

Recommendations came during a roundtable on the development of the Russian Armed Forces "in conditions of changing forms and modes of military combat."

Bondarev told the roundtable that the priority task for development of the army and the fleet at the moment is to improve combat training of forces with integration of experience of the anti-terrorist operation in Syria.