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Russia promises legal action over NSA surveillance scandal
The scandal over illegal data interception by US security services questions the correlation between the US and international law, and senior Russian officials are calling for an urgent update in Russian legislation in response.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Russian lawmakers say anti-piracy bill should protect movies, but not music
A Russian Lower House MP suggests to only protect movies and TV series in a new anti-piracy bill claiming that music is much cheaper to create.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Duma approves tougher fines for shooting at weddings
The Russian Lower House has passed a bill introducing tougher punishment for using firearms outside gun ranges, apparently targeting the practice of some ethnic groups who celebrate important events by shooting guns in the air.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Russia to introduce no smoking cells for remand prisoners
All Russian pre-trial detention centers might soon have separate cells for smokers and non-smokers, a top justice ministry official has announced.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Duma bars Russian children from adoption by foreign same sex couples
Russia’s Lower House has passed an amendment that bans the adoption of Russian children by same sex couples from abroad.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Russia promises to veto no-fly zone in Syria
Russia will not allow the introduction of a no-fly zone in Syria as the consequences of such step can be seen in Libya, a top Russian diplomat has stated.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Unlikely alliance: Prokhorov pledges support for heavy metal rocker in Moscow mayor elections
Billionaire and media mogul Mikhail Prokhorov has promised to back one of the most bizarre figures of Russian politics, whose program includes introducing a visa regime in Moscow and replacing migrant workers with robots.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Moscow blasts UNHRC's 'Hezbollah-focused' resolution on Syria
Russia's Foreign Ministry has slammed the UN Human Rights Council resolution, which condemned Hezbollah’s role in Syria, for ignoring crimes committed by “mercenary-terrorists from abroad” fighting in the rebels’ ranks.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Opposition blogger Navalny to run for Moscow mayor
Anti-corruption activist Aleksey Navalny has become a candidate for Moscow mayor’s office. The elections will take place in September and will become the first mayoral elections in the Russian capital in 10 years.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Moscow tut-tuts arms supplies to Syrian ‘liberated areas’ citing Hatla massacre
Russia urges prevention of “bloody chaos engulfing Syria” after the Obama administration approved additional arms supplies to Syrian rebels. Moscow questions the proposal for so-called ‘liberated areas’ as this may aggravate violence against civilians.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Internet sector sounds alarm over fresh Russian anti-piracy bill
The Russian internet community has blasted as ‘unbalanced’ a bill that, if passed, would allow out-of-court closure of websites over suspicions of copyright infringement.Read Full Article at RT.com
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US claims of Assad’s chemical weapons are lies – Pushkov
A senior Russian MP holds that the recent White House statement of chemical weapons use by the Syrian government is as false as the notorious reports about Iraqi WMDs.Read Full Article at RT.com
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NGOs find loopholes in Foreign Agents’ Law, officials urge corrections
Russian NGOs that receive funding from abroad are already using several methods that allow them to bypass the obligatory registration as ‘foreign agents’.Read Full Article at RT.com
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LGBT community takes legal steps against main sponsor of ‘sex propaganda bill’
Russian LGBT activists have addressed the Prosecutor General’s office claiming MP Elena Mizulina and the recently approved bill on ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors’ promote hatred towards gays.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Putin agrees to head All-Russia People's Front
With Russia Day celebrated across the country, President Vladimir Putin has accepted the offer to take charge of the All-Russia People's Front, aimed at promoting dialogue between different political forces in the state.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Our priority is to stop violence - Lavrov on Syria crisis
Sergey Lavrov says the US and Russia must do “everything possible” to stop violence in Syria, warning that people who fight the Syrian army are “very well armed,” among them “the terrorist organization created by the United States - Al-Nusra Front.”Read Full Article at RT.com
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Thousands march in Moscow opposition rally on Russia Day
Russian opposition groups have marched through Moscow’s city center in support of ‘political prisoners’. Demonstrators timed the rally to the start of Bolotnaya Square case suspects’ trials in early June and Russia Day celebrations.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Activists arrested as Duma votes to limit “non-traditional sex propaganda”
About 100 people gathered outside the Lower House of parliament in central Moscow to protest or support legislation that, if approved, would introduce fines for propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Duma approves criminalization of insulting religious feelings
The Lower House of the Russian parliament has approved a controversial bill which criminalizes insulting people's religious feelings. It could come into effect as early as July if passed by the Upper House and the President.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Russia could make using Gmail and Facebook high treason
After the latest NSA surveillance revelations a Russian MP has suggested to the government to immediately limit civil servants’ access to the popular US internet services and social networks.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Russian peacekeepers on Golan Heights would guarantee security – Pushkov
Russia’s top foreign policy MP says Syria-Israel relations needed a “qualitatively new solution” and Russian peacekeepers could provide additional security guarantees.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Russian Communists brace themselves for fighting international oligarchy
At a congress in Moscow over a thousand Communist deputies from the federal and regional level have been trying to develop a strategy that would allow them increased political weight.Read Full Article at RT.com
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PM Medvedev reaches 1 million ‘likes’ on Facebook
The Facebook page of the premier of the Russian government has reached the landmark of 1 million ‘likes.' Dmitry Medvedev said the result is due to Russians' genuine interest in the work of their government.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Russia introduces drug tests for schoolchildren
President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill detailing the psychological and medical tests on young people suspected of drug abuse.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Social networks part of cyber-war against Russia - Rogozin
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin is warning that social networks have become a tool for manipulating public opinion and that the threat of cyber war is already real.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Russia refutes US reports on Syria power handover agreement
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called a US State Department report that Russia, the US and UN agreed that Syrian authorities should pass their power to a transitional government as a “strong distortion of information”.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Police on alert as Moscow court opens hearings into Bolotnaya case
There is a large police presence around the city court where hearings into last year's Bolotnaya Square riots opened on Thursday.Read Full Article at RT.com
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President Putin accepts Moscow mayor's resignation giving green light to early election
The Russian President has accepted the voluntary resignation of Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin. He was appointed on the post less than 3 years ago but has stepped down as he wanted to be elected by the public after a change in the law.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Russia doubts fast UN probe into Syria chemical attacks
A top Russian diplomat says hopes are slim for a speedy UN investigation of the alleged sarin nerve gas attacks in Syria.Read Full Article at RT.com
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Moscow mayor announces resignation plans, calls for early election
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin says he will ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold early mayor elections, and that he will run for another term.Read Full Article at RT.com
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