Editing Chemical warfare (section)

===Russia===
Russia signed into the [[Chemical Weapons Convention]] on January 13, 1993, and ratified it on November 5, 1995. Declaring an arsenal of 39,967 tons of chemical weapons in 1997, by far the largest arsenal, consisting of blister agents: [[Lewisite]], [[Sulfur mustard]], Lewisite-mustard mix, and nerve agents: [[Sarin]], [[Soman]], and [[VX (nerve agent)|VX]]. Russia met its treaty obligations by destroying 1 percent of its chemical agents by the 2002 deadline set out by the Chemical Weapons Convention, but requested an extension on the deadlines of 2004 and 2007 due to technical, financial, and environmental challenges of chemical disposal. Since, Russia has received help from other countries such as Canada which donated C$100,000, plus a further C$100,000 already donated, to the Russian Chemical Weapons Destruction Program. This money will be used to complete work at Shchuch'ye and support the construction of a chemical weapons destruction facility at Kizner (Russia), where the destruction of nearly 5,700 tons of nerve agent, stored in approximately 2&nbsp;million artillery shells and munitions, will be undertaken. Canadian funds are also being used for the operation of a Green Cross Public Outreach Office, to keep the civilian population informed on the progress made in chemical weapons destruction activities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opcw.org/news/article/canada-contributes-to-russiarsquos-chemical-weapons-destruction-programme/ |title=Canada Contributes to Russia's Chemical Weapons Destruction Programme |publisher=Opcw.org |access-date=September 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426233831/http://www.opcw.org/news/article/canada-contributes-to-russiarsquos-chemical-weapons-destruction-programme/ |archive-date=April 26, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

As of July 2011, Russia has destroyed 48 percent (18,241 tons) of its stockpile at destruction facilities located in Gorny (Saratov Oblast) and Kambarka (Udmurt Republic) – where operations have finished – and Schuch'ye (Kurgan Oblast), Maradykovsky (Kirov Oblast), Leonidovka (Penza Oblast) whilst installations are under construction in Pochep (Bryansk Oblast) and Kizner (Udmurt Republic).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/russia/chemical/index.html/ |title=Research Library: Country Profiles: China Chemical |publisher=NTI |access-date=September 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605083958/http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Russia/Chemical/index.html |archive-date=June 5, 2011 }}</ref> As August 2013, 76 percent  (30,500 tons) were destroyed,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rbth.ru/news/2013/08/22/russia_destroys_over_76_percent_of_its_chemical_weapons_stockpile_29136.html|title=Russia destroys over 76 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile|date=August 23, 2013|access-date=August 29, 2013|archive-date=August 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825081556/https://rbth.ru/news/2013/08/22/russia_destroys_over_76_percent_of_its_chemical_weapons_stockpile_29136.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Russia leaves the [[Cooperative Threat Reduction]] (CTR) Program, which partially funded chemical weapons destruction.<ref>{{cite web|last=Guarino |first=Douglas P. |url=https://www.nti.org/gsn/article/new-us-russian-security-deal-greatly-scales-back-scope-experts-say/|title=New U.S.-Russian Security Deal Greatly Scales Back Scope, Experts Say|work=Global Security Newswire|publisher=Nuclear Threat Initiative|date=June 18, 2013}}</ref>

In September 2017, OPCW announced that Russia had destroyed its entire chemical weapons stockpile.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2017/09/opcw-director-general-commends-major-milestone-russia-completes|title=OPCW Director-General Commends Major Milestone as Russia Completes Destruction of Chemical Weapons Stockpile under OPCW Verification|publisher=Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons}}</ref>