Leader of the United Russia party fraction and member the State Duma's security committee Vladimir Vasiliev shakes hands with Vladimir Shamanov, deputy head of the State Duma's committee on civil society development, during a session of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in Moscow, Russia. The Russian parliament's lower house adopted a bill submitted by Russian President Vladimir Putin to suspend Russia's participation in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). On February 21, Putin said in a message to the Federal Assembly that Russia was suspending participation in the Russian-US New START, stressing that the country was not withdrawing from the treaty.
