“The United States on Wednesday criticized what it described as Russia’s ‘self-defeating’ decision to pull out of a decade-old drug control agreement. Nuland said the decision to end the program which had committed some $2 million for law enforcement training had come out of the blue, and Washington had only been informed of its this week. It is the third bilateral accord ripped up by Moscow in recent months — after the Russian government shut down the USAID aid agency offices last year and also banned adoptions of Russian children by US families.”
