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The United States’ military presence in Central Asia after Afghanistan is deemed ‘unacceptable’ by Russia. According to the Associated Press, Russia reiterated its objections to any US military presence in former Soviet Central Asian states to a visiting senior US official on Tuesday. After a meeting with Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who arrived in Moscow on Monday on a three-day tour on behalf of the US State Department, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said they discussed arms control negotiations and the situation in Afghanistan, among other things. “We forcefully emphasized the unacceptability to Russia of any type...
