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Finnish PM: EU membership negotiations with Ukraine may begin in December: Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo says that negotiations between the EU and Ukraine ...
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Finnish PM: EU membership negotiations with Ukraine may begin in December
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“Ministry of Happiness” in Russia? - “Pure idiocy”: Russia wants to delight its people with a Ministry of Happiness. Strangely enough, the people don't think ...
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“Ministry of Happiness” in Russia? - “Pure idiocy”
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New law annuls marriages: Putin bans gender reassignment surgery: Kremlin leader Putin is an advocate of rigid role models of men and women. In the past ...
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New law annuls marriages: Putin bans gender reassignment surgery
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The Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, has passed a law banning gender transition in its third and final reading. The law, writes Kommersant ... Show more   meduza.io/en/news/2023/07/14/russian-duma-passes-law-banning-gender-transition
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‘It’s Hell’: Russia’s Transgender Community Rushes to Undergo Gender Reassignment as Legal Ban Looms
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Quick Glance: Russian lawmakers pass law banning gender reassignment
  • Russian politicians have passed a law that prohibits gender reassignment procedures as part of the Kremlin's efforts to protect what it sees as the country's 'traditional values'.

  • The law must be approved by the Federation Council, Russia's Kremlin-controlled upper chamber, which usually rubber-stamps legislation passed by the Duma, before being signed into law by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

  • Russian parliamentarians vote for a law banning gender change surgery during a session of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in Moscow, Russia on July 14, 2023.

  • The Chairman of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, said in a statement on social media: 'This decision will protect our citizens and our children.'
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Russia introduces draft bill to ban gender-affirming surgery: Russia introduces draft bill to ban gender-affirming surgery
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Russia introduces draft bill to ban gender-affirming surgery
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"Simply ill": Duma deputy speaks out about Lukashenko: For the first time in 29 years, Belarusian strongman Lukashenko is absent from an important state ceremony ...
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Quick Glance: Speculations Arise on Lukashenko's Health After Absence from Appointment
  • Lukashenko was represented by his Prime Minister at a state ceremony, raising questions about his health.

  • Lukashenko left a military parade in Moscow early, which he attended.

  • As an authoritarian dictator, Lukashenko is a prominent figure in the political life of Belarus.

  • Putin played a significant role in supporting Lukashenko's stay in office in 2020.
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If they’re really going to transform health care, premiers must present a united front
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In a new installment of Stoned & Starving, Ma'Chell Duma gets stoned and eats amazing pistachio cake at Mezzanotte with artist Amanda Manitach ... Show more
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First President of Russia’s Bashkortostan Murtaza Rakhimov Dies at 88: Murtaza Rakhimov, the first president of Russia’s republic of Bashkortostan ...
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First President of Russia’s Bashkortostan Murtaza Rakhimov Dies at 88
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Onishchenko: COVID-19 booster and flu vaccine are allowed on the same day | NEWS.am Medicine - All about health and medicine
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Chances of snow in Derbyshire amid colder drier weather: Chilly winds are going to arrive from the east
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Chances of snow in Derbyshire amid colder drier weather
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Russia: Senior Duma deputy is dead: According to media reports, 46-year-old Nikolai Petrunin died of the long-term effects of a corona infection
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Russia: Senior Duma deputy is dead
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Another Russian energy boss has mysteriously died in hospital: Energy boss Nikolay Petrunin has become the latest high profile Russian to die in suspicious ...
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Another Russian energy boss has mysteriously died in hospital
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Russian chess grandmaster and politician seriously injured: Anatoly Karpov is said to have fallen and sustained a serious head injury. A “domestic accident” ...
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Russian chess grandmaster and politician seriously injured
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Russian parliament toughens punishment for crimes during military mobilisation: Russia's parliament on Tuesday approved a bill to toughen punishments for a host ...
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Russian parliament toughens punishment for crimes during military ...
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Russia starts school year with new lesson: ‘There’s nothing to fear in dying for the motherland’
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Quick Glance: Russia begins the school year with a new lesson: "There is nothing to fear in dying for the motherland."
  • For Russian youngsters, September 1 is a special day.

  • The Important Conversations teacher's guide is really clear.

  • The children clutched blue and purple balloons instead of flags, and no one wore the "Z" mark of support for the invasion of Ukraine on their new school clothing.

  • Important Conversations will officially begin on September 5, but President Vladimir Putin kicked off the program on September 1 in Kaliningrad.
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Former Kremlin adviser is hospitalized in Europe: Anatoly Chubais, who resigned as a top Kremlin adviser shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ...
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Former Kremlin adviser is hospitalized in Europe
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Former Putin ally who fled Russia hospitalized with rare illness: NYT: Anatoly Chubais resigned as a top advisor to Vladimir Putin and fled the country shortly ...
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Former Putin ally who fled Russia hospitalized with rare illness: NYT
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Russia State Duma vice-speaker: We hope Azerbaijan-Armenia shooting will cease: Each and every casualty is a pain for us, especially in our friendly countries ...
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Italy investigating case of hospitalized ex-Kremlin official: Anatoly Chubais in March became the highest official to cut ties with the Kremlin since Russia's ...
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Italy investigating case of hospitalized ex-Kremlin official
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Poisoning Not Yet Ruled Out by Italy in Case of Hospitalized Former Putin Ally Anatoly Chubais Who Fled Russia
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Putin Envoy, Who Quit Over Ukraine, Hospitalised With Rare Disease: Report: Anatoly Chubais, who quit his post as a Kremlin special envoy due to the war in ...
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Putin Envoy, Who Quit Over Ukraine, Hospitalised With Rare Disease: Report
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Vladimir Putin's rumoured girlfriend Alina Kabaeva was off-limits for Western sanctions. Until now
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Key Russian suspect in Litvinenko murder dies of COVID-19: Lawmaker: A key Russian suspect in the 2006 killing in Britain of dissident former Russian agent ...
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Key Russian suspect in Litvinenko murder dies of COVID-19: Lawmaker