The news agency quoted parliamentary defense committee chairman Sergei Yushenkov as saying he hoped the maneuvers, put off under pressure from nationalists in the legislature, would still go ahead on Russian territory.
Yushenkov, speaking at the Totsk range in the southern Urals, said radioactivity levels there would no longer pose any danger to troops.
After the decision to postpone the exercises, a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Moscow suggested the maneuvers be held in the United States but top Russian officials oppose the idea.
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