Darkened Skies: The U.S. Might Withdraw from the Treaty on Open Skies

... foundations for initiatives such as a regional moratorium on the deployment of medium-range missiles. The latter topic directly follows from the two territories’ partially recognized status as independent nations. Since Russia acknowledges them as such, Treaty on Open Skies mandates [ 6 ] that it prevent observation flights over its territory that come closer than 10 km to the territory of any country that is not a party to the Treaty. Georgia and the countries of the west that support its position and view the entire stretch of the Russian Transcaucasia ...