title: comey investigation a red herring to cover up wikileaks dump
text: russiaus plutonium deal no longer in effect  
  russia today president vladimir putin has signed an act suspending a  agreement between the us and russia on reprocessing weaponsgrade plutonium extracted from decommissioned warheads 
  the bill has already been published on russias official legal information website meaning its now in force 
  it mentions that a decision to restore the agreement can only be made by russias president 
  the deal between moscow and washington was ratified in  as a means to safely utilize weaponsgrade plutonium it suggested a specific procedure to turn it into nuclear plant fuel starting from  it was planned to reprocess  tons  pounds of plutonium which would have been enough to produce thousands of nuclear weapons ria novosti reported 
  yet while russia has prepared the infrastructure necessary for the process the us said it found the procedure too costly and instead opted for mixing plutonium with special dilutants to store it indefinitely 
  russia suspended the deal  due to drastic changes of circumstances the rise of threat to strategic stability as a result of hostile actions of the us towards the russian federation and the inability of the us to provide for the accepted obligations to utilize the excess weaponsgrade plutonium in accordance with the agreement  the new bill read 
  for the agreement to be resumed washington should reduce the us military presence on the territory of nato members that joined the bloc after  cancel its magnitsky act which bans entry to the us to a list of russian citizens as well as lift other antirussian sanctions and compensate the loss moscow suffered as a result of such policy 
  the bill on suspension  which is a  forced measure  according to russian foreign minister sergey lavrov  was first submitted by the presidents office earlier this month and then approved by parliament 
  commenting on the suspension of the deal russian deputy foreign minister sergey ryabkov has said that it would not affect any of moscows other commitments related to international nuclear security and does not interfere with the nuclear nonproliferation treaty