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Russia Says 'Unacceptable' for U.S. to Maintain Military in Central Asia After Afghanistan Russia reaffirmed its opposition to any U.S. military presence in former Soviet Central Asian nations to a visiting senior U.S. diplomat on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said after a meeting with Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who arrived in Moscow on Monday for a three-day trip on behalf of the U.S. State Department, that they touched on arms control negotiations and the situation in Afghanistan, among other subjects. Ryabkov told Interfax news agency that "we strongly reaffirmed the unacceptability...
