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cromka 8 hours ago

Then why would they need a full Budapest memorandum with co-signees if Moscow could just take them back?

This sounds ridiculous.

varjag 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It was indeed because there was no legal foundation for Russian ownership of all Soviet nuclear assets, no matter how every other nuclear power wanted it at the time.

epolanski 7 hours ago | parent [-]

By the way a "memorandum" is a document that forms no legal foundation at all.

dlahoda 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

because rockets to be transported to russkies back. if they would not sign, some bad things could happened along the way.