A total of 67 people have been killed in about 600 fires that broke out in Russia in the past 24 hours, a spokesman for Russia"s emergencies ministry said on Friday.
Talks on the prohibition of tactical nuclear weapons deployment in third countries should be the next step in arms control, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.
The presidents of Russia and the U.S., Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, agreed on Friday to sign a new arms reduction treaty in Prague on April 8, the White House said in a statement.