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The 2010 adoption of the ''Vienna Document plus'', initiated by Russia, led<ref name="Shakirov_future_of_Vienna_document" /> to the ''Vienna Document 2011''.<ref name="OSCE_VD2011" /> Four Vienna Document Plus decisions, including prior notification of sub-threshold major military activities and on the lengths of air base visits, were added in 2012 and 2013.<ref name="Shakirov_future_of_Vienna_document" /><ref name="USDeptState_ACIS" />
 
Full updates to the Vienna Document stopped with the 2014 [[Russo-Ukrainian War]]. Vienna Document 2011 confidence-building measures were used during the first year of the war, with 19 verification actions in Ukraine by 27 states and 5 verification actions in Russia by 11 states, including Ukraine, by October 2014. Vienna Document 2011 confidence-building measures were blocked in the parts of Ukraine not controlled by Ukrainian government forces.<ref name="Shakirov_future_of_Vienna_document" />
 
During negotiations in 2016 and 2018, Western negotiators aimed to strengthen the Vienna Document, while Russian negotiators preferred to implement the Vienna Document 2011 and following Vienna Document Plus decisions.<ref name="Shakirov_future_of_Vienna_document" />