The Russian government is set to introduce legislation against political extremism. The bill, which comes in the wake of recent anti-Semitic statements by Communist lawmaker Albert Makashov and Nikolai Kondratenko, the governor of the southern Russian region of Krasnodar, obliges parties to disavow extremist statements by their members or risk being banned. Meanwhile, a Russian Jewish legislator walked out of the country’s lower house of Parliament, saying he could no longer sit in the same room as Makashov.
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