Russia's Parliament Abolishes Cold War Military Agreement.

The lower house of Russia's parliament has voted unanimously to formally withdraw from the Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, a key Cold War-era security deal, more than eight years after Moscow halted its participation. President Vladimir Putin introduced a draft bill last week "denouncing" the treaty, which aimed to prevent Cold War rivals from massing forces at or near mutual borders. Moscow's military operation in Ukraine has seen hundreds of thousands of Russian troops pour into the country, which shares a border with NATO members Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary.