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MOSCOW, May 11 — Russia’s parliament will next week debate a bill to ban members of “extremist” organisations from being elected as lawmakers, a deputy said today, in a move targeting supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. The legislation can affect not only senior members and...

Tuesday, 11 May 2021 08:14 PM MYT

In late April, Russian authorities added Navalny’s network of regional offices to the country’s database of terrorist and extremist organisations, as Moscow seeks to outlaw the opposition movement led by President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critic. “The first reading is on May 18. It’s important not to delay it,” Piskaryov said in a statement on Telegram.

 

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